{"slug": "aint-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-its-still-been-fun", "title": "Ain’t the fastest or prettiest, but it’s still been fun", "summary": "A hobbyist detailed a three-node home AI lab built around Ryzen CPUs, an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and a Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB, running ComfyUI, Open WebUI, ollama, and Home Assistant, with plans to expand NAS storage and rack-mount the setup.", "body_md": "homeai-desktop (Node-1)\n\nRyzen 9 5900XT\n\n32GB RAM\n\n1TB NVME Storage\n\nRTX 5060 Ti 16GB\n\nB550M\n\nComfyUI, Open WebUI, TTS and STT (CPU)\n\nhomeai-offload (Node-2)\n\nRyzen 9 3900X\n\n1TB NVME Storage\n\nB550M\n\nRadeon AI PRO R9700 32GB\n\n32GB RAM\n\nollama, grafana, nginx, ansible - open-tofu (Rocky Linux), semaphore, homepage, portainer, vaultwarden, uptime-kuma, wiki.js, Home Assistant.\n\nhomeai-immich (Node-3)\n\nRyzen 5 5500, A320M\n\nRTX 3050 6GB\n\n16GB RAM\n\nImmich\n\nTrueNAS\n\nPoweredge T330\n\nIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v6\n\n32GB RAM\n\ntest_pool ~3.5T (2 out of the 8 drives populated, more drives incoming)\n\nNVidia Jetson Nano Super\n\nplaying around with Nemo Switchyard\n\nOPNsense (Firewall, IDS, NUT, CrowdSEC, Unbound, Routing)\n\nProtectli Vault V1410\n\nThings to do:\n\npopulate NAS with drives for family deployment.\n\nbetter network infrastructure\n\nmove everything into a rack\n\nMore work and more hardware", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aint-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-its-still-been-fun", "canonical_source": "https://forum.level1techs.com/t/ain-t-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-it-s-still-been-fun/254702#post_1", "published_at": "2026-08-31 02:54:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-31 03:21:43.630171+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT", "NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti", "AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700", "ComfyUI", "Open WebUI", "ollama", "Home Assistant", "TrueNAS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aint-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-its-still-been-fun", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aint-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-its-still-been-fun.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aint-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-its-still-been-fun.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aint-the-fastest-or-prettiest-but-its-still-been-fun.jsonld"}}