Rastrillo

I can test too if you're looking for more. I have an Asus motherboard and my Unraid server is also my Windows gaming PC. I can control a lot of RBG (like passed through GPU, CPU cooler, etc) through Windows but I'd like to make my ram RBG less obnoxious and I think this is the only way.

Plex transcoding on my i7-12700K still causes system hangs. Tried it with just adding `blacklist i915` to `/boot/config/modprobe.d/i915.conf` and I had Intel-GPU-TOP and Intel-GVT-g installed from "Apps". System kinda half hung after a few minutes of 4k transcoding with with the web UI being intermittently unresponsive and a shut down command getting stuck at "stopping services". I then tried uninstalling Intel-GPU-TOP+Intel-GVT-g and added `options i915 force_probe=4680` to `/boot/config/modprobe.d/i915.conf` and the system completely hung with the attached output on my rsyslog server (sorry for crappy formatting). Back to transcoding with my GTX 1070.

But does the Intel Thread Director in Windows 11 or Intel’s Hardware Guided Scheduling (HGS) in Windows 10 work to correctly assign tasks to P and E cores in a VM? Otherwise, you probably don't want to mix them if single core speed is important for your VM. I did a very non-scientific comparison on Windows 11 and thread director didn't seem to be working for me. Including E cores appeared to lower my FPS in games. After some stability issues with Windows 11, I went back to Windows 10 with only P cores and it's working great.

I just updated to a i7-12700K. Unraid was previously running on an i5-6600K and I had a gaming PC on a Ryzen 5600X. I decided to consolidate into one machine since a family member wanted my 5600X and I found the 6600K struggling a bit (4 cores, no hyper-threading). I decided to go with the Asus Prime Z690-P D4. I have a number of PCIe cards and the layout of this board is pretty good. Only 4 SATA ports is kinda lame but some of the other boards (the ASRocks for example) disable SATA ports when all m.2 slots are populated. A nice thing about this board is you don't need the new Intel 1700 mounting hardware. I wish I new that before I ordered the updated mounting kit! Specs are: Fractal Meshify 2 XL Intel i7-12700K EVGA CLC 280mm Asus Prime Z690-P D4 2x 16GB T-Force Xtreem ARGB 4000MHz CL18 (probably need another kit) EVGA FTW3 RTX 3080 MSI Aero GTX 1070 Fujitsu 9211-8I LSI 8x 3.5" HDD 1TB Kingston A2000 NVME (Cache) 2x 500GB NVME (VMs) Fresco PCIe 1x to USB 3.0 Type C & Type A card Seasonic FOCUS PX-850 (I was worried this wasn't going to be enough but seems fine) The NIC (Realtek) is working on this board but showing as 1000 Mbps. I had some issues passing through my RTX 3080 to a Windows 11 VM and it seems like plugging an HDMI into the onboard graphics fixed it. I think Unraid was using the GPU to boot and wouldn't give it up? I ordered a dummy HDMI plug for that port going forward. I also had problems with the VM randomly freezing but updating to the Insider Preview resolved that (found the fix somewhere on this forum). Also had to do this to get Halo Infinite running. I was able to get Plex transcoding working with the iGPU except for HDR->SDR tone-mapping (no big deal for me). IOMMU groups were easy and I had no issues isolating stuff for my VMs. I'm really happy with the performance of Alder Lake. I gave 6 Performance Cores to the Windows VM and don't notice any difference in gaming performance compared to the 5600X dedicated PC I was running (CPU wasn't typically the bottleneck in the games I play). Unraid is running way better too on 2P Cores and 4 Efficiency Cores. I was having significant I/O Wait problems on my 6600K and that seems to be gone. I experimented a bit with passing through E. Cores to the gaming VM (4P & 4E) but I don't think the VM realized the cores were different so I don't think the thread director was working right. I didn't specifically test it but performance seems better with 6P Cores.