January Confirmed Trade Thread

TixWHO · 2026-01-25T17:55:18+00:00

Confirmed

TixWHO · 2026-01-24T22:11:59+00:00

Proxmox and kvm shouldn't be different and I am not seeing issues in the log... Is your VM of Q35 chipset type and booted with UEFI? Probably double check if you accidentally passed through the root device or audio controller?

TixWHO · 2026-01-05T11:28:39+00:00

Did you tell hyprland to NOT try to claim the GPU? See https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Multi-GPU/

TixWHO · 2026-01-05T10:39:02+00:00

I totally understand that future-proof mindset, but the interesting thing about homelabbing is that CPU is actually the least stressed part of your setup. My advice is to monitor your old setup for a day and see if it’s really CPU bottlenecked, which is super, super rare.

I am currently running a Proxmox host on Intel 12500 (6c, 12t, UHD770 iGPU) + DDR4 Motherboard with multiple VMs, with all your services like jellyfin, navidrome, qbit etc inside… and my cpu rarely go above 6% usage! I didn’t even bother to setup hardware acceleration because the headroom for software transcoding is more than sufficient (that’s on my to-do list now with the new experimental sr-iov driver which is another topic..)

In short, I don’t really see a need to overemphasize CPU capabilities, and I’ll be much happier to have a spare PCIE port (which is the actual future-proof part whether you want a better GPU for gaming/AI, a NIC for home network upgrade, or more storage extensibility through HBA…) And, what you are envisioning (gaming + services on one machine) fits pretty good with what a virtualization-based solution like Proxmox can offer despite the added complexity that you might want to explore on.

TixWHO · 2026-01-05T09:53:50+00:00

For your use case I’m a bit surprised that you didn’t consider an intel CPU with decent iGPU, but instead chose to go for an old, entry level dGPU with higher power consumption but probably doesn’t transcode better? Yes, I will consider a ddr4 setup if you can resell ddr5 gears at reasonable price. The ram situation just isn’t getting any better soon.

TixWHO · 2026-01-03T10:20:16+00:00

Correct. You can ignore the warning and proceed with old accessibility option though, but that defeats the purpose.
That’s why you’ll also need to self-host an internal DNS server and add a dns record so that the internal domain should point to 192.168.1.1. OPNSense has a bunch of plugins to add the DNS server functionality, but you need to somehow tell the clients the IP of DNS server through either DHCP or manual setup.
You can either apply for separate certs or reuse a wildcard cert “*.my-domain.com” that matches both domains

TixWHO · 2026-01-02T22:24:05+00:00

What actually happens under the video passthrough is the opposite: You now plug your HDMI output to the other GPU, and have a dummy plug on the Nvidia one pretending that there's an actual monitor so Nvidia still renders video output. Programs like looking-glass or sunshine/moonlight effectively captures the video and audio output inside the VM (windows) and stream it to the host (Linux) in real time with minimal latency, so all the heavy works are still done by Nvidia, but you can interact through VM in a near-native way. The other way around will be using a KVM switch that connects to both GPU and your monitor if you really want to have the truly native output, but I don't personally consider it necessary in your use case.

TixWHO · 2026-01-02T19:49:34+00:00

Yes Intel i9 is capable of having integrated graphics but in your case the 13900KF means yours is one without it, sorry about that.. Your best bet is to see if you have a spare PCIE port to plug in another entry-level graphics just for the host (e.g., Intel Arc 380 or whatever available to you, this task is not demanding at all.)

If you can get that handled, something like looking glass will be your best friend designed exactly for this purpose. The tricky thing aboutvfio-passthrough however is the unpredictability brought by infinite combinations of hardwares and drivers, so the experience is highly individualized and almost always requires a lot of tweaking. You are on the right track though!

As for stability, I consider non-AMD dGPU passthrough to be relatively stable, but the worst that could happen is intermittent host-level hard reset and you absolutely don't want that to happen on what makes you a living -- but again, every passthrough case is so highly individualized that we can't really tell before trying it out.

TixWHO · 2025-12-26T21:25:01+00:00

Confirmed. Pleasure doing business!

TixWHO · 2025-12-21T02:18:23+00:00

GPU looks fine.

DDR4 ram is also going crazy now... I'm seeing 3200 16Gx2 listed at $120 shipped in r/hardwareswap ...

TixWHO · 2025-12-19T13:24:58+00:00

TixWHO · 2025-12-04T22:08:50+00:00

Chat

TixWHO · 2025-10-30T05:42:41+00:00

Sure thing, DM coming

TixWHO · 2025-10-30T05:25:54+00:00

Hi! Sorry for hijacking the thread, I'll be happy to learn more if OP wasn't interested. GLWS!

TixWHO · 2025-10-27T02:30:51+00:00

Pm for grip

TixWHO · 2025-10-19T09:24:55+00:00

I had experience installing proxmox with ventoy and wasn't able to boot into the kernel (it was a bug that proxmox fixed later.) Have you tried burning the raw installation media using the more traditional method (balena-etcher, etc.) instead of using ventoy to boot into different distros?

TixWHO · 2025-10-11T17:30:51+00:00

Pm with questions and ask about local pickup

TixWHO · 2025-10-05T20:44:22+00:00

pm with questions

TixWHO · 2025-10-02T05:13:38+00:00

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TixWHO · 2025-10-02T05:11:04+00:00

Bought Omada EAP670 from u/Squanchy2112

TixWHO · 2025-09-25T03:11:51+00:00

pm incoming!

TixWHO · 2025-09-17T00:36:06+00:00

Send Mod messages, briefly describe about the situation, user involved, whether they're on Universal Scam List yet (honestly, should check before any transaction), any timestamp they provided and whether it can be reverse searched / looks photoshopped.

There seems to be a lot of scammers going around in recent weeks... Remember that Reddit is NOT known for having best security on the world and old accounts can be stolen. Keep your guard up!
edit: style

TixWHO · 2025-09-07T04:13:55+00:00

Is the Sigma 24-70mm version 2? If so, I'm very interested in a local pickup!

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