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Are you planning on running multiple NVME drives and or a bunch of PCI-E passthrough? Threadripper is great for the PCI-E lanes and a little higher overclock. To me it wouldn’t be worth it, but for your case it might be a good fit. Now remember an x399 board costs around $250-$350. So if you are budget conscious it is something to consider. So a 1700 with a decent board x370 will run you a little under the threadripper price alone.

If you plan on running 3 or possibly may run 3 at the same time a 1700 is a good fit. I get by with 2 vms with 4 vcpus for gaming with a 1600x.

If you run the most recent 6.4rc10b you shouldnt have to have C-states off. I haven’t run them turned off since rc7. I don’t know what the I’ll effect of having them off since RC8, that’s when I flipped the option in bios.

Big difference between the 2 boards is SLI compatibility. I think you are right, x370 boards can be gotten pretty cheap. Trick will be looking for “multi-gpu” support. Now technically a second pci-e 3.0 running at x4 is the same amount of lanes as pci-e 2.0 x16. For future proofing pay the extra $ if you can afford it.

C-states are on. Make sure your bios are up to date.

Unless you want to mess around with using the 960 in the first slot and using the Nvidia passthrough technique. Something like this would work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D0E1TNY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PbAaAbS132H3S

+1 Same situation here once the option that Eric put in above is added it’s the best I’ve ever had it run. 1600x MSI SLI Plus x370 super easy add right after the “append” before the boot info. Should be fixed in a later RC but it’s the workaround for now.

I’m assuming you meant didn’t have continued problems. Youtube SpaceInvader One has some great videos on building VMs. Other than minor tweaking here and there while Ryzen was still new my VM has been untouched for settings for months. Big thing for gaming make sure your board has 2 pci-e slots second one running 8x at minimum (B350 or x370). That’s so you don’t have to mess with the PCI-E passthrough workaround in the 1st slot. Big thing with ryzen make sure your bios are up to date! Rest of the VM setup is clicking drop downs. Give unraid at least 2 cores (1st set) and of you go with Ryzen pay the extra little bit for a 1400 (4C/8T) or ideally a 1600(6C/12T) if you want more threads. Overclocking the chips is pretty easy too. 1400 get up to about 3.7-3.8 and 1600 around 3.8-3.9 on air. Also so if you use steam the use of a mapped drive for your gaming repository on Unraid works very well. There’s some topics in the announcement forums with that info.

I’d go the Ryzen route. Most of the work for tweaking has been fixed. The “line work” you mention you just go to the Main tab, click on flash, and add in a command string after the word “append” on all lines. That line work my be fixed in the next pre-release. The rest is pretty easy. I get ~130fps with my 1080 passed through for gaming now.

Fixed it for me, been driving me nuts for almost a week!

If you are plugged into a USB 3 port make sure you’ve gone under advanced in the VM configuration and turned on USB 3.0.

I’m limping my 1600X until Ryzen 2. Are there recommended cpu counts and RAM recommendations now for a Win 10 vm? Got mine running with 6 vcpus isolated, course mine does Video transcoding as its main function when idle. (Record a lot of tv in my plex docker and scrub out commercials with it)

Other than the pressure on the cards I never had issues before the patch. My 1080 would get ~27Mh/s and a second 1060 piped through got 24. (1080 stinks for hashing, great gaming card though) Figure our what your “break-even” is cause the cost for power vs money made may not be worth it to you. (Zcash has to be about $220 for me to consider worth it)

Either will work.

Don't forget the option to downclock in bios. I have my 8350 running at 2.8Ghz for a power save.

Try the new RC build of 6.4 kernel is updated to 4.11 which has enhancements for Ryzen. I've had good luck so far after I locked down a rogue crashplan docker that was eating more RAM than it should.

There's a docker container by yoshithewire I've been using this for my PVR engine for a solid year. Check github

I'm rebuilding a VM tonight for testing with the new 6.4rc with GPU passthrough due to issues with my old one and getting stuck in the UEFI shell. I'll report on GPU performance in gaming to see if it's any better for some standard benchmarks and 3dmark.

Anyone else having random freeze/reboots on 6.3.5? I can't start my VM with any passthrough. As soon as I do the unraid either reboots or completely locks up. Dockers include Plex, hdhomerun. Upon revert everything is back functioning.

What dockers/plugins are installed? Have you tried safe mode? Just trying to isolate if it's NAS update related or a plugin/docker or even VM related issue.

Toggle the switch at the top right of the screen (Where it says basic view)

Check your logs too while running. See if there are any reoccurring pop ups while running. Also for grins pin your CPU for plex in case that might be causing issues. Edit Docker for plex and under Advanced radio toggle look for extra parameters and add something like this... Extra Parameters: --log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=1 --cpuset-cpus=0,1,2,3 These settings keep the log for the docker in check and assign certain processors to isolate Plex. In my case with a hexacore with SMT I'm assigning cores 0-3 out of 12 total. Helps contain the dockers so they won't eat up all resources. Can be done for all your dockers if you like. If you have more than a quad core proc, maybe don't use 0,1 as Unraid likes the first couple for itself. Also if using the plex released docker make sure if you are tight on RAM to not set transcode to /tmp as that uses RAM and can cause issues if you don't have a lot of overhead. Just my 2 cents.

Watch the entire video, there's other interesting stuff in there too. *wink wink, nudge nudge* Real opportunity coming I think.

Good point Bill I haven't seen the issue but I have a vm running 24x7.