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Alright nerds. I bought a old HP Elite 3800 desktop off eBay. Ordered some upgrades mostly from eBay: a new GeForce graphics card, 24G RAM, 500G SSD for OS (Linux Mint), a secondary 2T SSD for Bitcoin Core, and a i7-3770 to upgrade the CPU.

Not top of the line but very functional and zippy for what I am going to ask it to do. Got the whole kit for around $300 which is a lot cheaper than a Pi setup for a node and I get a daily driver on top. I still have to put everything together and get it running but it’s a lot easier than people think
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tigs 2y ago

Oh one thing I should probably mention #[2] ... Do you have a UPS? Nothing quite like being able to shutdown your node safely when the power goes out.

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GHOST 2y ago

No not yet. One thing at a time. I’m only a weekend warrior and very much a newbi.

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tigs 2y ago

All good mate! I was meant to get one a few days ago but I had to prioritize some other hardware. It's definitely next on my list though. Once you have a NUC that IS NOT A Pi.

- You garner ALOT more faith in the uptime of your system and it's capacity to route lightning and do general Node things. It's around this time I felt the importance of getting a UPS 😄