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So I went ahead and purchased a new setup with all the sales going on. I moved to the much needed ATX form factor and am recycling a few components, namely the ram, cooler, GPU's and maybe case fans. New Setup: Asrock Z690 Phantom Gaming 4 Motherboard Intel I7 12700k CPU Team T-Force DARK Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 (recycled) Zotac RTX 3070 (recycled) MSI RX 480 4gb (recycled) Noctua NH-U12S CPU Cooler (recycled) Corsair RM1000E PSU Corsair 4000D Airflow Case 2TB Solidigm P41 Plus M.2 SSD THOUGHTS ON PARTS AND BUILD: Right off the bat, I know memory size is a bit slim but I'll look into upgrading once I know everything is operational and feasible, same goes for storage, looking at buying another 2TB stick for wives VM and unraid. I think a 1000w gold PSU should be enough to run an I7 and 2 graphics cards (the graphics cards will likely never be both fully utilized). I've read that there are some issues with Alderlake with the P and E cores where in which the cores cannot be distinguished by the OS and can cause performance issues if E cores are being utilized for high loads. My solution is to provide 4 P cores to both VM's and 4 E cores to unRaid, I would prefer to provide my VM with 6 P cores, my wives with 2 P cores and 2 E cores and unRaid with 2 E cores. Other issues I've seen and am concerned about with 12th gen are : iGPU/gpu passthrough HW transcoding (don't really know what this means other than its affecting peoples ability to use Plex, which I don't necessarily need) From my understanding updates were supposed to remedy a lot of issues, I'm wondering if that is the case now. The M/B has gigabit Ethernet which I thought was going to be a problem since 2.5 is offered with other M/B's but don't think is much of an issue because in our area/our ISP looks to only provide gigabit internet at the moment I'm also curious if I can add an extra drive and boot into that to run system as regular PC and not a server if I ever want the full horsepower of the rig. If all else fails I know I can always run this new rig as a dedicated bare metal machine and keep my wife on current setup, regardless I'm looking forward to learning something new and reaping its benefits

So I ended finding out that gaming in VM is not viable because it uses some underpowered VM graphics, no pass through is available.

Thanks for the reply! The videos I have seen were the Linus Tech Tips videos on Youtube. My main objective is to be able to use my computer at the same time my wife does, so essentially I wanted to build a server to create 2 VM's out of 1 machine, the heaviest load I would put on the VM would be gaming but I would also use it for the internet browser. In addition as I like to tinker and create cool things, I would also like to take advantage of the additional features of having a server/using unraid, like a NAS, and maybe a Plex server (I've never used Plex but I take it its like your personal Netflix) . Maybe for my next build I can retire this current build as a server and use the VM trick whenever we both want to use the computer. I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to this stuff, I just think of an idea or see something cool and try to learn how to do it, I appreciate you taking the time to explain, thank you!

Could I simply run a VM within my existing OS, and display that say on my living room TV, use the VM to game while my wife uses the monitors and main OS for work? I know having more 'computer' would be beneficial but this at least buys me some more time with my current rig, I wouldn't mind running games at 1080 either in a VM as I would still be able to display in 2k in normal conditions not running a VM

Hello everyone, Back in 2016 I built my first PC which I am still using today, it has gone through some changes but this is where it stands now: Asrock Z170 Fatal1ty ITX Motherboard i5 7600k Team T-Force DARK Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 Zotac RTX 3070 Samsung 970 Evo M.2 SSD (500GB) 1TB HDD Noctua NH-U12S Corsair 450w SFX PSU LG 32" QHD 165hz Monitor It's a bit dated but works great for my needs, I game from time to time, and mainly use it for the internet browser. In the past 2 years my wife has begun to use my PC heavily for work which is not really a bother as I don't use it that often and use the computer whenever its free. The thing is, we have 2 monitors and our living room tv is 2ft away, whenever I game I see the the 2nd monitor not being used and wonder how great it would be to have it where I can use one monitor to game while my wife uses the 2nd monitor for work, or even better use the tv to game and have the desk free for her to work entirely. From the research I've found it doesn't seem like that is possible. When I saw unraid being used to run 2 OS's at the same time off 1 pc on various videos on Youtube I thought this was the answer to my problem. Of course it doesn't seem that my current hardware is up to task so I'm considering building a new PC trying to recycle some parts off my old PC. My intentions are to go for the best value, and from what I last remember AMD was the way to go price to performance. Seeing some recent videos it seems like its kind of a wash between AMD and Intel right now but what sways me to go AMD is that the AM5 socket is expected to be a bit future proof where as 13th gen Intel seems to be at its EOL. Potential Build: Ryzen 9 7950X (https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-9-7950x-ryzen-9-7000-series/p/N82E16819113771?quicklink=true) Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite ATX motherboard (https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813145412?quicklink=true) Corsair Vengeance 32gb (2x16gb) DDR5 5600 (https://www.newegg.com/corsair-32gb-288-pin-ddr5-sdram/p/N82E16820236828?quicklink=true) (will add more in the future) Noctua NH-U12S (from previous build, wondering if it would work with CPU) Zotac RTX 3070 (from previous build, have been debating returning this card and going for a 6700xt) MSI RX 480 4gb (extra card I have, this would be the GPU I'd use for my wife) Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500gb (would reuse as the boot drive) 1 TB SSD (TBD)(Wife) 1 TB SSD (TBD)(Mine) 1000W PSU (TBD) I could use some input on the motherboard and ram as I just chose what had good reviews and was an affordable price. As for the CPU I figure more cores are better for a server, why not buy the maximum, although I did have a good look at the R9 7900x and R7 7700x, but research suggests looking at the Intel I7 13700k at that price point. If I were to go 7950x I would give myself 8 cores and my wife 4, and if I remember correctly you need to give some processing power to the server? The 7950x has integrated graphics which can be used by the server, the 3070 would be used for me and the rx 480 for my wife. I also have a WD 1tb NAS that I setup for my wife a long time ago but would prefer to ditch that and figure out how to integrate a NAS into this new setup. Another thing worth mentioning is that my nephew has an all new, in the package, Ryzen 9 5950x build (minus a GPU) that he never got around to building because he joined the Army. I've been tempted to make him an offer on his setup if he is willing to let it go, although the only problem with this is that there is no integrated graphics and is not future proof. Questions: Is there a much easier way to accomplish what I'm trying to do without Unraid? Does my setup/plan seem sound? Do I lose any performance using Unraid? Would it be wiser to have 2 separate computers? How can I learn more about servers and Unraid? Will I have to troubleshoot a lot as I do not want to have this be a bother for my wife