I have a gaming / home server at home. Using Unraid, it serves a gaming vm, a NAS, smart home (with home-assistant and Node-RED), Ad-Blocking (secondary Pi-Hole

I have a gaming / home server at home. Using Unraid, it serves a gaming vm, a NAS, smart home (with home-assistant and Node-RED), Ad-Blocking (secondary Pi-Hole), a media server (Plex) and a Unifi-Controller. It‘s based on a Gigabyte x470 and a Ryzen 5 2600. The rig is watercooled (using ZMT tubing), which makes it super silent (and I don‘t need a heater in my office any longer. It‘s amazing how efficient watercooling is - yet, the heat still has to go somewhere). The gpu is a Sapphire Pulse Vega 56. All in all, the complete rig consumes 80 watts in idle, and 130 watts when I‘m using the gaming vm for surfing. When gaming on it, consumption can go up to a reasonable 500ish watts. I‘m also using a Thinkpad x230 as my „roadwarrior“. While „the cloud“ might be cheaper, I love to have everything „at home“.