What to self host with a GTX 1060?
from vogi@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 17:42
https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1887846/what-to-self-host-with-a-gtx-1060

Got a new PC handed down to me. And now have my old one collecting dust. It has a dedicated GPU (GTX 1060 6GB VRAM) i guess the most obvious thing would be an AI model or maybe jellyfin (which is currently running on a raspi 5 just fine for), but was wondering if you maybe had other suggestions?

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AverageGoob@lemmy.world on 17 Mar 17:44 next collapse

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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Mar 17:46 next collapse

Honestly the easiest use for a PC would be to remove the GPU (if integrated graphics are available on the CPU), and to host things like community game servers for your friends (or maybe something like a self-host chat server for Teamspeak/similar).

A GPU of that caliber is not ideal for those kinds of workloads (although it’d work fine for media encoding).

KorYi@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 18:00 next collapse

I have my old GTX 980 in a server. It is currently handling object recognition and transcoding in frigate, immich and Plex. Works great for this (although not super useful for Plex as it doesn’t support HEVC).

I haven’t tried throwing any LLMs at it.

rabber@lemmy.ca on 17 Mar 19:56 collapse

I came here to suggest Frigate.

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net on 17 Mar 18:04 next collapse

You could use the GPU to help host a peertube instance.

Eirikr70@jlai.lu on 17 Mar 18:43 next collapse

I presume that its power consumption is not to be neglected. Do I’d just keep it off of I don’t really need it.

NotSteve_@piefed.ca on 17 Mar 19:39 next collapse

Regarding Jellyfin, if the PC you got has an Intel CPU then using Intel QuickSync would actually easily outperform the NVIDIA card for transcoding.

Up until very recently I was using a cheap i3 to power my Jellyfin instance that often has 5+ streams going at a time. (The only reason I upgraded was that I had a friend getting rid of an i7 from the same gen lol)

wabasso@lemmy.ca on 17 Mar 19:49 collapse

Are you going to be running Linux?

I’ve also got a tower with a GTX 1060 and I’d like to have it sleeping, but ready to be woken by the Pi when needed. But it never wakes up from a sleep state, so I’m curious if you’ve had any luck with that and we can trade notes.