veeelad

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I figured IOMMU wasn't working since my i3 didn't support it. Good to know that it should be a seamless transition to the Xeon after dropping it in. I'm considering upgrading from the stock Intel cooler on the i3 to something like the Cryorig H7 since I have more space in my tower. Did you ever run the Xeon on the stock cooler, and if so, did you notice temps go up? I anticipate my server doing a lot more Plex transcodes and want to plan accordingly.

Hi! I used your build as a template years ago and pretty much followed it pretty closely except I used a different mid-tower case, hard drives, and an i3-3240. I recently purchased an E3-1245 v2 to upgrade my CPU, and noticed you did the exact same thing. Did you have any issues with the upgrade, or did you just swap the CPU and call it a day? I believe my BIOS is currently on version 0904, which should support the chip. Does the motherboard support VT-d? I tried to do some research but couldn't find anything other than it supporting "Intel Virtualization Technology". Unraid currently shows that I support HVM, but IOMMU is disabled. Also, I noticed that you are running 7 drives in addition to your cache drive. I went through the thread and unless I missed it, I didn't see mention of adding a SATA expansion card. I just wanted to know which one you used in case I want to expand in the future. Thanks again for taking the time to share your build, mine has been going strong for almost 6 years now! Edit: Just wanted to say that I ended up finding a response from you in another thread that VT-d is supported by this board. Thanks!