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i3 8100 is a pretty weak CPU (4 cores no HT). I think you'd want to upgrade that before trying to run a VM for gaming. It does not even have turbo boost. Looks like your mainboard can take an i7, see if you can find a CPU that have at least 4 cores with HT (8 logical cpus) as you'll want that extra horsepower for a gaming VM with everything else going on in the background.

Thats not a bad option. A little pricey for me, but it would let me get rid of my SAS expander. I'll have to add it to my wish list.

@Squid is right. Don't cheap out on this. Lets start out with what you have for hardware to start, then we can give you better assistance and where to go from there. That being said if this is for a real business I'd not be buying parts from a microcenter (or MemoryExpress here in Canada) and trying to make it work. I'd go right to a Dell/HP/Lenovo and start with them. They have the proper support and hardware to do this right. If this is a small business (and I have supported a number of small business in my area) I'd still go that route, unless I had no other choice. You are not going to get a card that does both. They don't exist, and even if they did I'd not want to have to hunt one down during an emergency. Getting back to 10 GB networking... you need to decide between fiber or copper. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses, I prefer fiber for 10 GB. Copper https://www.newegg.com/intel-x540t2/p/N82E16833106083?Description=10gb ethernet&cm_re=10gb_ethernet-_-33-106-083-_-Product&quicklink=true Fiber https://www.newegg.com/p/14U-0036-00165?Description=10gb ethernet fiber&cm_re=10gb_ethernet_fiber-_-14U-0036-00165-_-Product&quicklink=true You also need the infrastructure to accept 10 GB. Switches, etc. For the SAS card... LSI. End of story. For your situation, two of them.

Highly unlikely. However if you really are running out of space on the board it might be time to look at true server mainboards. A lot of them have these options built in. Another thing to keep in mind if you are expecting unRaid to hit 10 G speeds from the array, that is never going to happen. Even the cache would not get up to that speeds, unless you have an array of NVMe drives for cache to pull from. No offence to the Limetech team, but unRaid is just not really built for speed. I'd be looking at a different solution that does a true raid setup (hardware or something like ZFS) that strips across a lot of spindles if you need that level of performance.

Run a memtest on the system with the memory @ 2400MHz and see if you get any errors. 1st gen Ryzen is very picky about memory. It's also possible something in your build is either on its way out or just that you might have gotten lucky that you have not had any crashes up to this point. But like @johnnie.black hinted at, this sounds like memory related. With 4 channels populated max ram speed for Ryzen 1 2133 if these are single rank memory.

Yep, I know. I'll keep plugging away and see if I can get some logs or something else to give us some hints to work from.

Hello All, I've been trying to get this docker to work, however I'm not able to even get the default nginx page to be displayed. If I put the nginx container on the same ports I get the default page. I don't get anything in the logs for the docker, so I'm not sure where to look. Chess