Woah. That fixed everything. Thank you so much.
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Aweseome! Looks like you have plenty of cores, give your VM some room to breathe!
I bought a supermicro x9sra w/i7-3930k on Monday (SUPER great price) and will be getting rid of the i7 for either a e5-1620 v2 or e5-1250 v2(I have plenty of ecc ram and non ecc ram is too pricy imo). From benchmarks the i7 and 1650 are pretty much identical but the 1650 is $80+ and the 1620 is ~$20. Obviously the 1620 isn’t the same but it’s close enough (so it seems performance wise) is it worth the extra $60 to get the 1650 for 6c/12t over 4c/8t or die that not really matter? Going for a linux desktop for daily use and a windows vm for gaming.
I’d go for the 6C/12C so that you can dedicate 4C/8T to the gaming VM comfortably.
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I emailed them to see if they could apply the affiliate code now… fingers crossed
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Just ordered the e5-1650 v2 and a psu to run my setup. I’m going to be testing this out as a desktop vm and gaming vm setup.
Specs will be:
Supermicro x9sra
E5-1650 v2
32+ Gb ram
Boot ssd
Vm1 ssd/hdd
Vm2 ssd/hdd
1050ti 4gb
Rx580 8gb
(Have a rx480 8gb and rx570 4gb I might use for one of the vm)
Couple of questions:
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I see most of the sample builds have 16gb ram. I’ve got 32gb that’s going into this machine and assume that’s enough or should I just go ahead and max it out at 64gb? Gaming is 1080p.
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I’m unfamiliar with unraid(Tried it once over 5 years ago). Since the cpu doesn’t have an igpu and both cards will be dedicated to a vm, will that be okay or would I need a third for unraid? I remember a ltt 2 gamers 1cpu and he had a basic gpu that he said was for unraid to boot and still have the other gpu for the vm. Is that still a thing or am I good?
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if all works well I’ll end up making this a two client setup and swapping the desktop vm for another gaming vm so my girlfriend can play her games (sims and Minecraft), if I do that would I need to add anything else?
Ok in Section 8. where it explains about changing the Syslinux Configuration I have …
Append initrd=/bzroot (there is no isolcpus)
isolcpus= IS NOT IN THAT CONFIG? So what does that mean? I don’t want to overwrite anything and bork the system.
I am attempting to install an older GPU EVGA GT 720,
Hardware specs:
Supermicro X9SCL
16gb ram
Xeon e3-1220 v2
Edit: Ok I see I missed a section in 6.2
Other problem I’m seeing is my processor is not showing any hyper threads and I’m thinking it should be showing. I got to wait for this parity check to complete and then I’ll go back into my bios and see if for some reason it’s turned off.
Edit 2: Bios has no mention of hyper-threading…weird.
I am testing out the ASUS Prime B450-Plus and the integrated LAN does not seem to be working. The network lights don’t flash when I plug in an ethernet cable. I cannot ping my gateway. I’m testing by booting to Unraid CLI. DHCP times out. Static IP didn’t work.
Is it possible the board does not have LAN drivers for linux? This is what ASUS posts for Hardware compatibility.
I’m going to install Windows on it today and see if I can validate all the integrated components. Rule out the possibility of a bad board.
Any other ideas / suggestions would be appreciated!
I’ve never had an onboard NIC not work inside of Unraid, at least not a modern motherboard. Have you tried updating the BIOS?
Yup, I updated the Bios. Ordered an Intel PCI NIC to try also
I’ve looked, and I see not compatibility issues with that NIC. I would get a replacement motherboard.
I’m so intrigued, and have lots of time to take on projects right now, but has/is anyone else looking to build one of these for pure gaming? I have an unraid server already that I have storing plex, etc but I would rather keep that separate as to not take away from my transcoding overhead.
As of late my wife has been playing a lot of Sims 4 on her base model 2015 MacBook, and while it runs fine, it takes up a lot of the precious hard drive space and ramps the fans up to the max as soon as she runs the app.
So, if you were building this as a budget dedicated gaming rig for two, how would you equip it?
I’m thinking right now:
Ryzen 5 1600
Asus B450
16 gb ram (maybe 32, depends on how much budget I can convince my wife of)
1x RX470 for her VM
1x GTX 1070 for my VM
Now comes the interesting part, the array… should it look something like this:
1x 500 gb SSD cache
2x 1tb SSD array
1x 1tb (or larger) spinner for parity
Or just run SSDs in the array as JBOD?
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What do you mean for “pure gaming”?
For 2 GPUs I’d definitely recommend a higher tier processor and more RAM, 2 really pushes the 1600. Especially if you’re expecting some decent performance from your GTX 1070.
You shouldn’t use parity protection on your vdisks. I’d recommend using a 1TB unassigned, putting 2x500GB boot vdisks on it, and using a parity protected array for larger storage.
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e3-1220 v2 has no hyper threading, it’s 4C/4T only.
You should isolate cores 1-3 from the host.
pure gaming, as in I wouldn’t run any other docker/utilities or use as a storage NAS.
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Ok…that clears it up. I was thinking when it says 4C 4T then that means they should show but I guess if it were 4C/8T such as the 1270 xeon then it would show up and be mo better
FWIW: I got it up and running. Had to fight with Windows to automatically log in…
I had to log out of my microsoft account, uncheck some stuff on in the sign-in options then that didn’t work…googled some more and found “netplwiz” and unchecked that option…and it worked finally.
Now I’d like to work on learning using something like rdesktop from Linux to Windows since most of my machines are on linux. EDIT: remmina works ok…I guess it doesn’t pass audio thru so it’s not ideal.
UPDATE: Ordered a E3-1240 v2 off the ebays for 39.99…will list the e3-1220 v2 to a new home. I was looking for a 1270 but wasn’t having much luck getting into that 50 dollar price zone, wasn’t sure about a 1280 or 1290 in that motherboard.
thanks for looking into it. I loaded windows and the NIC doesn’t work there either. I am getting a replacement motherboard
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Something I noticed with my setup
On Remmina, Microsoft Remote Desktop App (Android), and even regular Windows RDP…the Nvidia Control Panel only shows 3d settings.
In Chrome Remote Desktop…the control panel is fully populated. Shows 1080p