My Cheapest Combo Yet - Cloud Gaming Server with an X79 Microcloud

Duration: 30:38

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The Nvidia Tesla P4 is one of the best addons for your homelab. It's a great for video encoding and decoding, and can even be used for gaming through Nvidia GRID. Today, we're running it on my Supermicro X79 Microcloud to see if this 9 year old card still has what it takes to run modern games.

But first... What am I drinking???

Coffee. And it's nice and hot thanks to my Insulated Tumbler from https://craftcomputing.store

Proxmox vGPU Installation Script: https://github.com/wvthoog/proxmox-vgpu-installer

PolloLoco's vGPU Installation Guide: https://gitlab.com/polloloco/vgpu-proxmox

Manual vGPU Install Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTXPMcBqoi8

*Links to items below may be affiliate links for which I may be compensated*

The Nvidia Tesla P4 can be found here: https://ebay.us/DLxAEj

Check out the Supermicro 5037MR-H8TRF on eBay: https://ebay.us/gA6OCD

Supermicro "X99" Node X10SRD-F: https://ebay.us/IlrkDW

Supermicro Xeon-D X10SDD-F: https://ebay.us/xC94cD

Sliding Rails for Microcloud: https://ebay.us/vLWdHx

Intel Xeon E5-2651v2 12-Core (10-Pack): https://ebay.us/e9ydi8

Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 8-Core 4.0GHz: https://ebay.us/CQE67Q

Sparkle Intel Arc A310: https://amzn.to/4rn5JzZ

Sun F80 Warpdrive 800GB (4x200GB) SSD: https://ebay.us/xZ96ux

Supermicro AOC-CTG-L1S 10Gb SFP+ Adapter: https://ebay.us/KzjwcY

Dual m.2 SATA PCIe Controller: https://amzn.to/49VG9vY

Seagate 8TB Ironwolf Pro SATA HDD: https://amzn.to/3NpiXO0