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Reuse my 2020 gaming PC or dedicated homeserver ?

Help

My current setup :

  • Old gaming PC (2020)
  • New gaming PC (2026)
  • DS418 NAS
  • Some ubiquiti equipments for networking

My NAS has hit its limit for Plex and can't do docker/VM without tinkering & perf issue.

I would like a dedicated homelab server and I see 3 possibilities :

  1. Reuse my old gaming PC (32GB DDR4, RTX 2070 super, equivalent/same-year i5 CPU)
  2. Buy a dedicated NUC (Intel NUC 13 ? Minisforum ? GMKtec?)
  3. Buy a mac mini

Last solution seems to be the worst, but I'm tempted to start developping on iOS, so just throwing it in there.

What are your rec ?

Posted May 11, 2026, 5:21 AM UTC

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