[chrisper]

Putting a Threadripper in a homeserver is overkill.

Besides I wanted to replace the i7 920, so that it won't be that hot anymore in that room (130W TDP vs 65W). I think a threadripper would achieve the opposite.

Maybe I should just do seasonal CPUs... Threadripper in Winter and Ryzen in Summer.

[TwoNineA]

> Putting a Threadripper in a homeserver is overkill.

Running 2 gaming VMs for me and my kids and one ubuntu WS on a 12 core Threadripper. Host is also doing file serving and runs Unifi controller.

One server to rule them all.

[sorenjan]

If you still have the old motherboard you can buy an old Xeon X56xx and use it as a drop in replacement in the LGA1366 socket. An X5650 for instance cost about $25 on ebay, is clocked at 2.66 GHz like the i7 920, has six cores, a TDP of 95W, and overclocks really well. I don't know if most i7 motherboards support ECC, but the CPU supports it.

The LGA1366 motherboards still fetch some money too, if you'd rather sell it.

[bitL]

For home server/NAS/HTPC you are likely fine with some Atom-based Celeron/Pentium ;-)

[chrisper]

But where is the fun in that!

[doommius]

I would say get something a bit more beefy like i3 or i5, as most people will want to run some basic things like Game servers, database or maybe a plex server, and it's good to be able just to run things compared to either rebuilding or renting something in the cloud in a lot of instances.

[bitL]

Latest Gemini Lake is already past the level of Phenom 2/Core 2 but with 10W TDP. They are also faster than Broadwell i3 on the same frequency in single thread (but have no hyperthreading).