NotYetRated

Same board, no issues here.

Hello. I was unhappy running unRaid in my Xenserver, which is why I made the jump to just an unRaid host. Why not migrate your webserver over to a VM on unRaid, as I did? I am also running dual Xeon e5's, and unRaid has been an absolute pleasure. 5 VM's, 9+dockers, multiple plugins, all co-existing incredibly smooth.

I gave my Plex docker 10 cores, and 4 of those are shared with Sab, sickrage, CP, headphones. I have had 6 simultaneous transcoding streams running smooth as butter with those cores.... You serving up some Netflix style crowds with that many dedicated cores? The RAM is also substantially overkill, even if you go the VM route with a windows host. I would recommend you go the docker route though.

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Hello, I recently set up a VPS and am looking to use it to tinker with Docker containers. Is there an option for a form of WebUI management for installing/running/updating docker containers, like we do with unRaid? What have people found that they have had luck with?

Kinda of conflicting questions here: You ask to lower noise, then to lower temps. Gonna be hard to satisfy one and sate the other. It looks like you have the same case I went with, Norco RPC-470. I volt modded my mid-wall fans down to 7v. Made a big difference on noise, and didn't reduce airflow that much. I also have all other fans running off the MoBo PWM fan headers set to Smart control through BiOS. Idles nice and quite. Edit: The Volt Mod only requires you to move one of the Fan Wall's 4-PIN molex wires. The red one specifically. You can see the mod exactly in the Last two pics of my system here: Juggernaut The power molex for the mid-wall is just poking out the pass through hole in front of the PSU. Notice the Black And Red Wire Positions. haha nice catch. My final sentence should have read lower noise, not temps. My temps are just fine. Thanks for the fan wiring suggestion, will give it a shot in the morning.

Finally capped some images below. Really happy with the setup, however need to do something about cooling/noise. I have this box in a dedicated closet, complete with filtered intake air; however the setup is currently still too noisy for me. I can hear it during quiet scenes when in my theater room, and the neighboring tinkering room. Would prefer not to hear it outside the closet at all. Currently have airflow reversed, pulling from the back and exhausting the front. Need to relocate my rooms air intake in order to effectively be able to swap that. Right now, the air intake to the room is sitting directly behind my case. Also need to clean up my cable routing, at some point soon. If anyone has any pointers on lowering her temp, specifically the 4 center cooling fans, would be appreciated. http://i.imgur.com/ETEjllQ.jpg[/img] http://i.imgur.com/zzA9JWD.jpg[/img] http://i.imgur.com/5k34JU5.jpg[/img] .....Edited your post to reduce the image size because it was blowing up our browsers.

Roughly the same thing. NAS and media server (Hopefully I can jam 4 more HDDs into my case). Biggest reason for the dual socket is that I plan on merging my minecraft server with this system. Then adding more VMs for testing purposes. Hehe thats what I did, merged in my Minecraft server. What you run yours on, right now I use a VM with MineOS... Not incredibly happy with the latest iterations of the webUI for MineOS though... Its just, wonky to me..

Got my system up and running, however my second graphics card will not pass through on my ASRock EP2C602 board. Card worked fine in previous e3-1245v3 setup. Have this card in the PCIe slot closest to the RAM. Other card, in the x16 slot at opposite end of board, works perfect. I am going to try a bit more debugging before posting a help thread in proper forum. Error I get is below. I have BIOS set to initiate onboard GPU, not PCIe GPU: 2016-03-01 23:48:41.708+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.18, qemu version: 2.3.0 Domain id=3 is tainted: high-privileges Domain id=3 is tainted: custom-argv Domain id=3 is tainted: host-cpu char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2016-03-01T23:48:42.684449Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,multifunction=on,x-vga=on: vfio: error opening /dev/vfio/40: Operation not permitted 2016-03-01T23:48:42.684484Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,multifunction=on,x-vga=on: vfio: failed to get group 40 2016-03-01T23:48:42.684498Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,multifunction=on,x-vga=on: Device initialization failed 2016-03-01T23:48:42.684510Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=81:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,multifunction=on,x-vga=on: Device 'vfio-pci' could not be initialized 2016-03-01 23:48:42.732+0000: shutting down

You should be fine so long as you have some decent airflow through the shroud. Actually, you'll most likely be better off with your setup, than people in large cases without directed cooling over the entire motherboard. A lot of cases with active coolers direct cooling right past the board, without any good flow down at the board level, where there are plenty of components that could use some active cooling. It is all for electronic component longevity. Keeping them down helps with thermal degradation. Will it matter, probably not, but it certainly wont hurt. Thanks for the great suggestions, guys. I've decided to try the "passive" solution with the shroud and see how that performs. I ordered two of the Supermicro SNK-P0048P heat sinks from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101827 I'll report back once I've got everything installed and see how my temps hold up. It'll be a couple of weeks before I get around to doing that. Thanks again. p.s. My current system is based off of a 4-5 year old low end AMD CPU with a small active heatsink under the shroud, but I've never really spent much time focusing on performance. Unraid has always just been a file server to me, but v6 has changed all of that (as most of us in this thread must agree with or we wouldn't be spending all this money on dual Xeon rigs)

ASRock EP2C602 SSI EEB has 4 Marvell 9230 SATA3 ports. Unraid is not recognizing drives plugged in to them for me. Both SSD and HDD. Can see the drives in BIOS. Thoughts?

Got my Norco RPC-470, RAM and both CPU's in today. Somehow my motherboard, which was the first order placed from Newegg, is still not here! As for the case, I am a bit disappointed that it doesn't appear I can mod it to fit my 5x3's in the side HDD bays. I can definitely get it in to the center bay, but the 2 side bays are too narrow by 0.25". Ohh well, win some lose some. Had I of come across that above linked ATX size dual slot ASUS, I probably would have went with it over my board, but dont feel like returning to newegg.

I saw that source info as well, they note that they turned all power saving options off, which is where i am hoping to be well under that. We should see this weekend!

I too am hoping idle can be brought in under or around 100 watts, but we will see! My current e3-1245v3 with 2 GPU's, 10 HDD, 3 SSD idles as low as 50 watts, per my kill-a-watt and confirmed on my battery backup. That is with the VM's off, if it matters.

Does anyone know what power savings modes these chips have? Just wondering what power consumption will be at idle, have not found any good sources, where the testing left C states turned on. I saw a couple showing 200 watts(on dual proc systems), with all power save modes off.

Well, well, well... let me help you justify! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219020&cm_re=norco_470-_-11-219-020-_-Product Pop in a 3x5.25" to 5x3.5" and you have 15 HDD goodness at $90.00 You can win this one, .. "But Honey, if I build this one server I can consolidate two I have into it, we'd end up having more space, and less noise!" Then just kinda forget to ever take the other two offline. Mother of god..... Can anyone tell me if the hard drive cages on the side can be replaced with 5x3's as well? Would be quite perfect, I do believe.

I thought the same thing, but the X9DRL-If is a dual socket in a atx form factor. Thanks for the heads up, though I run VM's and need the full length x16 slots.

Contemplated going dual socket, because why not at these proc prices, however cant justify it when throwing in the need for a case as well. Went with: Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157523 RAM: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/201380486027 CPU: Listed in OP Hopefully i can find my LGA2011 heatsink plate for my Noctua.

All you need is the sun ... I suspect we get a bit more hours of that in Texas (but I still don't have any panels). I grew up in NE Ohio (Canfield) ... but left long ago. Mentor here, Snow belt! Ive seen graphs showing us as among the least "sun hours" a day in the continental US. Something like 4.0 - 4.2. http://www.solarenergybyzip.com/solarenergybyzip.php?byadd=1&street=&city=&state=&zip=44077&latitude=41.68389380000001&longitude=-81.22985299999999&kW=&building=0

Shit, wish panels currently made any form of logical sense in north east ohio!

bah hah well thats concerning. I have the same WS board, though shes been running strong 24x7 for... hell its been over 2 years now I believe.

With that dual socket ASrock board price, I am tempted to jump! I ordered one CPU, contemplating a second. However, I would require a new case. My old Antec 900v2 won't fit the bill on eATX. Any suggestions? I am running 2x 5in3 bays, all filled, and a 2in1 for SSD's. Have a dedicated "server room" with my electronic equipment, filtered positive pressure, and not extremely concerned about noise. Just something easy to work on, and thatll either fit me 5in3's or comes with similar hot plugs.

I have two ASrock Rack boards, and they have been rock solid. Have not needed customer support, so cant comment on how good/bad they may be.

Ya I think I am jumping on it. This proc, found one for 65 bucks. Motherboard unfortunately is looking to run 250-300, though I won't need any RAM. I was planning to wait for the new Intel E line, supposedly dropping soon, but highly doubt ill get the same overall performance/cost on that.

I would say upgrade to v6, and reevaluate your decision to move to Windows 10. I can attest, you would be far happier on v6 with a Windows VM. Or two. Or three.