I went to my local tech thrift shop, and amongst all of their $150 6th gen i5 Optiplexes, I found a 7th gen desktop. i7-7770, 16 GB of RAM, 240 GB SSD.

4 cores, 8 threads, it'll be a nice upgrade to my Proxmox server - and I'll able to take the 32 GB out of it to make 48GB total in the new box. It's got an NVMe slot, I might try swapping the NVMe from my existing server into it, but it'll most likely switch around the network interface names.

...Am I any closer to finding what I'm looking for?
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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-

I went to my local tech thrift shop, and amongst all of their $150 6th
gen i5 Optiplexes, I found a 7th gen desktop. i7-7770, 16 GB of RAM,
240 GB SSD.

I forgot to mention, the desktop I bought was $75!


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Re: Re: Score!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 28 2026 12:25 pm


So, switching out the system was pretty simple. I'm running Proxmox.

I took the RAM from the old system, added it to the new system - it now sees 48 GB of RAM. Removed the new system's SATA drive and moved the old system's NVMe to the new box.

Booted it up on a keyboard and monitor, logged in as root, ran *ip a* to get the name of the new network interfact, edited */etc/network/interfaces and changed the bridge port interface to the new name, and rebooted.

Total time, 10 minutes - maybe.

I now have half-again more RAM than before, 8 threads instead of 4, more cache, more clock speed, and things are running well.
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I went to my local tech thrift shop, and amongst all of their $150 6th
gen i5 Optiplexes, I found a 7th gen desktop. i7-7770, 16 GB of RAM, 240 GB SSD.

4 cores, 8 threads, it'll be a nice upgrade to my Proxmox server - and I'll able to take the 32 GB out of it to make 48GB total in the new box.

Heck yea - the RAM alone made that a steal... I think these thrift type shops are gonna be a deal, unless they've already figured out pulling ram/storage is in their best interests...



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Re: Re: Score!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 28 2026 12:25:08

I went to my local tech thrift shop, and amongst all of their $150 6th
gen i5 Optiplexes, I found a 7th gen desktop. i7-7770, 16 GB of RAM, 240
GB SSD.

I forgot to mention, the desktop I bought was $75!

wow, thats a bargain!

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Re: Re: Score!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 28 2026 22:18:00

So, switching out the system was pretty simple. I'm running Proxmox.

I took the RAM from the old system, added it to the new system - it now sees 48 GB of RAM. Removed the new system's SATA drive and moved the old system's NVMe to the new box.

Booted it up on a keyboard and monitor, logged in as root, ran *ip a* to get the name of the new network interfact, edited */etc/network/interfaces and changed the bridge port interface to the new name, and rebooted.

Total time, 10 minutes - maybe.

I now have half-again more RAM than before, 8 threads instead of 4, more cache, more clock speed, and things are running well.

"I love it when a plan comes together." =)
it surely feels great to get such a boost for 75$ only. good job!
and.. you just have to love proxmox ;)

Mindsurfer
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Mindsurfer wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

"I love it when a plan comes together." =)
it surely feels great to get such a boost for 75$ only. good job!
and.. you just have to love proxmox ;)

Yes, indeed!

I have2 ESXi servers at work that are EOL, I'm seriously thinking about replacing them with Proxmox servers and buying support. They're pretty
lightly used, mostly jump boxes and one or two utility servers - all of
the infrastructure that used to run on them is in the cloud now.



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