Hello! I am a cybersecurity student interested in building my first homelab, I have heard this looks great on resumes and I find tech extremely interesting. To start off, I have built a few computers in the past (for gaming) so some of the parts I have included below might seem odd to you however it is simply because I have them on hand.
CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF 3.4 GHz 20-Core Processor
MOBO: Asus TUF GAMING B760M-PLUS II Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 77 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory
SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 24 TB 3.5“ 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
Graphics Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 2080 SUP…
Hello! I am a cybersecurity student interested in building my first homelab, I have heard this looks great on resumes and I find tech extremely interesting. To start off, I have built a few computers in the past (for gaming) so some of the parts I have included below might seem odd to you however it is simply because I have them on hand.
CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF 3.4 GHz 20-Core Processor
MOBO: Asus TUF GAMING B760M-PLUS II Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 77 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory
SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 24 TB 3.5“ 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
Graphics Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB Video Card
PSU: Corsair SF750 (2024) 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply
Case (tossup): Asus Prime AP201 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
OS: Ubuntu
I would really appreciate any insight to my build so I can know what I’m doing wrong. The case I have chosen is also a toss up, I would really appreciate some suggestions on that especially cases that have wood on the outside because I like the natural look. I will mainly use it for PLEX as well as cloud storage for my other devices.
I also plan on hosting game servers i.e. modded mincraft so thats why I went with such a hefty chip.
I would eventually like to try out AdGuard as well, the main reason I’m building is to learn and get a better grasp using Linux more consistently. I know that the KF does not include integrated graphics, this is why I chose the 2080 Super so video transcoding will not be a problem for my PLEX movies & shows. I plan to use PLEX mainly for myself and my girlfriend so there is a good chance it would stream to around 3-4 devices at a time.
I have talked this over with ChatGPT a lot and a used PCPartPicker to check configuration between my hardware. I would eventually love to branch out and host my own AI, I know the 2080 Super might be a little weak for that I just wanted to include some of my future plans for this. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as well as more ideas of things I could host with my own system. Thank you!