Jose Jimenez

The part "Way less bugs & No need to mess with the c states" Bought me! I mean the 1800x would be the same for gaming IMO but stability over all!

Looking to upgrade my CPU and wondering if someone here already tested this 2 CPU. The 1800x is going for about $80 Less and was wondering if it is good enough for the 2 gamer 1 tower setup.

Hello everyone and thank you beforehand for any help provided. I got Unraid 6 and here my 2 Gaming VM setup: MOBO: Gigabyte GA297x Gaming 3 CPU: i5-4690k RAM: Corsair DDR3 24 GB total PSU: EVGA G3 Super Nova 850W 80+ Gold GPU: VM1 - EVGA 1070 VM2 - R9 270x Toxic Disks: VM1 - Samsung NVME 960 SSD + 2TB 7200RPM VM2 - Samsung 850 SSD + 2TB 7200 RPM Before we get down to business "Yes! I plan to upgrade to get a better performance for the 2VM setup" With that said: So far, so good. Everything is working properly with one exception that is driving me crazy. My second VM which have the R9 270x Toxic is showing that the graphics card hit 100% for anything, literally watching a youtube video ramp it up to 100% load. My only guess is that this card is installed on an x8 PCI socket however after I check on performance between this x8 PCI and x16 PCI this is only a 1% upgrade/downgrade of performance. To be honest I'm really lost on this matter. I need to figure this out in order to be able to take a good hardware choice for the upgrade.

Hello everyone and thank you beforehand for any help provided. I got Unraid 6 and here my 2 Gaming VM setup: MOBO: Gigabyte GA297x Gaming 3 CPU: i5-4690k RAM: Corsair DDR3 24 GB total PSU: EVGA G3 850W Gold plus GPU: VM1 - VM1 - EVGA 1070 VM2 - R9 270x Toxic Disks: VM1 - Samsung NVME 960 SSD + 2TB 7200RPM VM2 - Samsung 850 SSD + 2TB 7200 RPM Before we get down to business "Yes! I plan to upgrade to get a better performance for the 2VM setup" With that said: So far, so good. Everything is working properly with one exception that is driving me crazy. My second VM which have the R9 270x Toxic is showing that the graphics card hit 100% for anything, literally watching a youtube video ramp it up to 100% load. My only guess is that this card is installed on a x8 PCI socket. To be honest I'm really lost on this matter. I need to figure this out in order to be able to take a good hardware choice for the upgrade.

I purchased a Samsun 960 EVO m.2 250GB and although is not like I can´t purchase a second SSD that is not actually on my anytime soon plans! Since the second VM will be used for mostly watch movies and play League of Legends I don't think I would ever worry about an SSD for it. About the storage part, I need to keep it budget for now! For the information provided, I think that I will: 1- Install the SSD as the main drive for the main VM. 2- Install a spare 2.5 old HDD from a laptop I got broken on the closet for the second VM. 3- Install a 200 GB 7200 RPM 64 drive as a cache drive that as well got in the closet. 4- Use my 2 TB 7200 RPM 64 cache drive as storage for both VM´s. I need to purchase 2 monitors, 16gm more RAM, and a better cooling system since I´m using the stock one since the AIO solution I had gone wrong. After that, I might consider the purchase of more SSD drives. In my opinion, I think this will be the best I can do at the moment for the setup. I really appreciate all the help! If there's any further recommendation I'll be glad to hear it.

Thank you very much for the information! although I'm aware of this since the VM´s use will be for Gaming I´m not really worried about data loss. In case the VM fails I will just create it again from scratch.

I don't have any cache driver at the moment. Will be installing the SSD, transfer the VM's to it and formating the old disk to use as cache driver. Thank you very much will be trying that as son the SSD arrive!

I got 2 win 10 VM's and will be soon installing a new SSD. How do I transfer the VM's to the new SSD disk. Is this even possible?

Soo, in the case I purchase a secondary SSD I will be using one for each VM and no cache driver or should I still use a cache driver?

First, then all I'm new to unRaid and this is a testing scenario. -I got my unRaid up and running. 2 win 10 VM's for gaming each one with its own GPU, etc etc etc. -My server is running with only 1 7200 rpm 64 cache drive for both VM's and I have noticed that this drive hits 100% write/read which I was expecting to be honest. - I have been reading a lot of posts about this, however, has been unable to find the information I need or the terminology escapes me. -I purchased an SSD disk and expecting it soon, my question is as follow: Since I don't have a parity drive should I install the new SSD as cache drive or reinstall the VM's on this disk instead and use the 7200 rpm 64 caches one for expanding storage purposes. -Would it be faster to use the SSD as the main disk for the VM's or as a cache drive in this scenario?