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Unfortunately Zen will not be available till the end of the year.

What are the Best AM3+ motherboards to use with unRAID 6 (as host) and VMs? Ideally, it would be great if I could find one that works out of the box without the need for additional scripts.

Well with the lack of interest, I've already gone ahead and built this using an intel platform. unRAID works very well as the host, as expected. There's also plenty of scope to expand in the future. I've always felt this is more of a technical forum, where you go to get your problems answered rather than a community to hang out and collaborate. Getting said questions answered is always exceptional but leaves this place quite cold. I guess that is the nature of this product, as its geared towards power users, despite the excellent efforts of limetecch to simplify the experience. Well worth creating an HTPC around this now. SteamOS and their controller works particularly well. Hi Ockingshay, I am very interested in your build. What hardware, software and peripherals did you end up using? And did everything work out of the box? P.S. If I get an unRAID with Intel build working smoothly, I will give the AMD FM2+ build a shot in the future as well. Also thinking about tinkering with Dell Precision T3500 and HP Z400 workstations as these are quite cheap and are the first platforms to support VT-d.

Done! Thanks for the heads up. How did removing that irqpoll affect movie playback with the A8-7600?

I think this is a great idea. I would for one would like to see a build done with fairly inexpensive yet capable hardware (eg, AMD FM2+ motherboard with APU and dGPU). Maybe pass through the APU's iGPU to a VM with OpenELEC and then pass through the dGPU to a VM with SteamOS or Linux Mint. This with unRAID 6 as the host OS. And then make a software installation guide so that the average non technically savvy user could duplicate as their first build.