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Homelab gaming on WindowsForum.com covers the practical overlap between home virtualization servers and gaming PCs. The tagged discussion looks at turning an ordinary AMD gaming desktop into a Proxmox VE hypervisor, pairing a Ryzen 5 5600G and 32GB of RAM with a Radeon RX 9070 passed through to a Windows 11 LTSC or Bazzite virtual machine. Reported in-VM gaming felt no different from native, but the card only behaved after a custom hook script worked around AMD's GPU reset bug. The recurring lesson is that a gaming PC can serve as a capable homelab node, with the real cost landing in configuration rather than performance.
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    Radeon RX 9070 Proxmox Passthrough: Hook Scripts Work Around Reset Bug

    A MakeUseOf writer turned an ordinary AMD gaming desktop into a Proxmox VE hypervisor. The build pairs a Ryzen 5 5600G with 32GB of RAM and a Radeon RX 9070, and the RX 9070 is handed to a Windows 11 LTSC or Bazzite virtual machine through GPU passthrough. The writer says games in the VM felt no...