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

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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

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