Blastermaster

I'll start off by saying I'm an impatient canadian idiot. I decided to dive into unRAID after seeing that Linus Tech Tips video with 2x GPU pass through. I figured if I'd be building a NAS I might as well make it a gaming machine as well. I searched around for smallish cases, fell in love with the NODE 804 and jumped on a black friday sale without thinking about everything else. Found out later, that there are very few microATX motherboards that support VT-D. Settled with GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5. With the Canadian dollar being so crummy, I looked through eBay to find a used Xeon processor. Found a great one at a great price! But... it doesn't have a built in GPU. Now the motherboard supports PCI-E x16 x1 x8 and x4. Ideally I would be using the x16 slot for the main GPU running windows but I also need a separate video card to utilize unRAID, yes? If possible I'd also would want to run a Linux distro along side the Windows distro. That would require another video card as well? Are there any inexpensive (eBay?) video cards that are x1 x8 or x4 PCIE compatible? Will a x16 card work in an x8 or x4 slot but just poorly? The x1 video cards I did find are VERY expensive for their performance Visiontek Radeon 4350. Is is PCIE x1-> PCI adapter a good solution? Amfeltec has one The 2nd & 3rd video cards don't really need any performance. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Not shipping to Canada at all? At that price this would be an immediate purchase for me.

Wow! This is exactly the kind of build I wanted to make! Thank you for providing the parts list! I looked through the supported CPUs of the motherboard and saw that it does support Xeon E3-1230 v3. Should also support gpu pass through. I'll give this build a go as well!

Quick search resulted in that it does NOT support iommu. I would prefer gpu pass through

Thank you! Not only is that board listed as having ECC memory support, it also happens to be newegg's shellshocker deal of the day beating out the board I was looking at! Huge thanks!

So looking for the motherboard information on Newegg I see: Memory StandardDDR3 2133(O.C.)/ 1866/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066 Non-ECC, Un-buffered But ECC works? I am looking for a microATX board rather than an ATX board. Only other difference is that your board's BIOS is listed as an UEFI BIOS, but that's just the graphical interface?

Hi all! I have been looking into building a NAS setup for a while now. I did as much research on my own as I could but I want to double check this build. AMD FX processors fully support virtualization with AMD-V and AMD-Vi as well as ECC memory support. Unlike Intel's offerings, I don't need a 'server-grade' chip/board to support ECC memory. Yes? Unfortunately, I can never find clarification if a particular motherboard supports ECC unbuffered/registered. This is what I'm planning on purchasing: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard Kingston 4GB (1 x 4GB) Registered DDR3-1333 Memory x4 Can anyone confirm if this combination will support ECC unbuffered/registered? Opinions? Suggestions? Ideally, I would want this server to be running 24/7. While lower power consumption would be better for that, I figured this would be a less expensive investment to toy around with. Additionally, I would like to throw in a video card for some gaming down the road.