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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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Highly doubt it's worth it in the long run due to electricity costs alone
I'm still running a 480 that doubles as a space heater (I'm not even joking; I increase the load based on ambient temps during winter)
I am assuming that’s a GTX 480 and not an RX 480; if so - kudos for not having that thing melt the solder off the heatsink by now! 😅
The GTX 480 is efficient by modern standards. If Nvidia could make a cooler that could handle 600 watts in 2010 you can bet your sweet ass that GPU would have used a lot more power.
Well that and if 1000 watt power supplies were common back then.