PhantomXiii

Not yet... pushed the planned upgrade back to November but now I'm not sure if I'll be able to make work. Might have to push it back another 6 months or so, but it also depends on how pricing goes too. Current Wish List at this point looks like this (subject to change of course): Asus ROG Strix X570-E Ryzen 7 3700X 64GB DDR4-3200 EVGA RTX 2060 6GB My main reasoning in components is building a gaming rig and run UnRaid on that platform. It seemed to work out ok on the current rig so I don't see much reason to stray from that philosophy. Plus, when it's time to upgrade, I can re-purpose the old hardware into a still decently respectable gaming PC.

Current setup is on a Asus Maximus Hero VIII with Gigabyte GTX 980. I didn't have any issues passing the 980 through and used SpaceInvader One's EXCELLENT video guides to help me along in several questions I had when building my setup. Most helpful hardware trick was adding the PCIe USB Card (4 port) to dedicate to the Win10 Gaming VM. I have also have since added a couple of Sabrent 4-port switchable USB hubs for additional devices. I haven't been able to do a ton of gaming with this setup, but no real issues when I did from what I could tell. The Win10 VM in particular has ended up becoming my daily driver for a while yet and it's performed great. If there is any issue, it's usually been due to MS's WONDERFULL Win10 patching practices.

I'm just starting out to explore moving from my current i7-6700K platform to Ryzen 7 - 3700X (or 3800X). My use case is similar to what your looking to do. Had two boxes both built on Z170 platforms and original intention was so I could easily switch parts in case of any hardware failures. i7-6700K/32gb for unraid and i5-6600/16gb for window/sim PC. I ended up trying to consolidate by virtualizing the gaming rig and see about running that as a daily driver. It's been almost a year and it's worked so well that my i5 parts are collecting dust and I'm probably going to send them on their way. Honestly the only issues I've had are probably Win10 update related. Twice I've had issues where I've had to do a system reset on Win10 which is a minor inconvenience in that I have to reload any installed programs, but at least data is still there and recovery has worked fine. Overall though, it's worked well enough that I'm thinking about just making a big upgrade on the current server since I'm at my self imposed EOL for it and I'm looking into Ryzen 7 for the additional cores and RAM so that I have some more overhead to play with. Probably overkill for what I need currently, but I went larger on my current setup and it's served me well. (I can still take the current server guts out and build a solid i7-6700K/32gb/GTX-980 gaming rig that will still hold its own for a while) I'm currently thinking Ryzen 7 - 3800X/64gb/GTX-2070 Super at this point. My main concerns are what needs to be watching out for moving from Blue to Red hardware. I think it might just be that I'll need to build a fresh Win10 VM and that really shouldn't be too big a deal.

Couldn't tell you... I'm not really rolling with PLEX just yet as i'm planning on rebuilding that Docker still. I'm not convinced that my PLEX Docker is healthy and I just haven't had time to go through it yet. I'm a very limited PLEX user still so that's not going to help much with feedback either. I would say that I probably would limit or suspend PLEX while I was using the system for gaming, as I just don't think I have enough overhead on this setup to push both, but I may surprise myself.

I've been familiar and dabbling with UNRAID for several years but still consider myself new as I've been taking my time rolling out my current UNRAID system. My use case is fairly similar to yours though I'm very green on the PLEX side of things and that's my next tackle. I built two new PC systems a couple of years ago, one for Gaming (race sims) and one for UNRAID primarily for NAS duty. With space issues as well, I recently looked at consolidating 2 boxes into 1. System Hardware is Z170 Platform, i7-6700 CPU, 32GB RAM, 120GB SSD Cache Pool (2 drives), 4TB HDD Storage Array with Parity (2TB x2 + 4TB x1), 500GB NVME and 1TB HDD unassigned for Win10 VM (NVME) and Games Storage (HDD), GTX980 (passed through to Win10 VM), GTX760 (passed through to Mint VM) and 4 port USB PCIe card (isolated to Win10 VM). I'm currently running my Dockers on the NVME though I'm looking into upgrading the Cache Pool to 500GB and possibly moving them back to running on Cache. Currently have a Win10 VM for Gaming, a Mint 19.1 VM for Daily Driving, and a PLEX Docker set up. Mint VM is accessed remotely through the Win10 VM with both running at once. I just started testing my PLEX Server as it was a previous Docker setup that was moved and I'm not convinced that I don't need to rebuild it yet. I've gotten a lot good helpful information from Spaceinvader One's excellent YouTube Videos and great information in these forums. Still a ways to go but I'm getting closer. Once I get this setup stable with PLEX, I'm hoping to run as is for a couple of years and I'm going to start planning the replacement system which I'm thinking will be about double this size in specs.

New user here but have been slowly working on my new Unraid 6 build for a while now. With lots of help reading this forum, I think I've got the basics pretty much figured out (at least to the point of having an operational system). Recently I decided to complicate things by consolidating PC's and so my "gaming" PC has been virtualized to run within my Unraid PC. My usage scenario is to be the household NAS, running one Windows Gaming PC (VM1), one Linux Desktop (VM2) and a Plex Media Server for right now. Unraid 6.6.5 System Hardware: Z170 ATX MB i7-6700K CPU 32 GB RAM GTX 980 4GB VC (passthrough for Win10P VM) GTX 760 2 GB VC (passthrough for Linux VM) 4 Port USB 3.0 Controller (isolated for Win10P VM) Array Devices: 4 TB SATA HD (Parity) 2 TB SATA HD (Disk 1) 2 TB SATA HD (Disk 2) Cache Devices (Pool): 120 GB SATA SSD (Cache) 120 GB SATA SSD (Cache 2) Unassigned Devices: 500 GB 970 EVO NVMe (VDisk and Docker Location) 240 GB SATA SSD (Baremetal Win10P Build) 1 TB SATA HD (Games Library) I'm still trying to figure out the best way to configure my setup and so I wanted to post what I have and to gather some feedback. My biggest questions right now are running the VM's and Dockers on the NVMe, running my games on an unassigned hard drive and my current SSD Cache Pool (which I think is going to be my weak spot). Thanks for any insight.