[Intel 12th generation Alder Lake / Hybrid CPU]

8 hours ago, SimonF said:

This may depend on which motherboard you go with. Currently with the MSI PRO-A DDR5 I have the NIC is not detected, so using USB Ethernet adapter at present.

Alright, which isn't a terrible work around for the interim. 

 

Otherwise, there isn't any glaring issues with what I'm expecting out of the hardware? The E-Cores should be able to handle the load of Unraid and my Dockers and the iGPU should have no trouble with my plex transcodes and then some?

[Intel 12th generation Alder Lake / Hybrid CPU]

I'm hoping that I can just get some clarification that I'm not off base with my understanding. Quick background, I have a existing unraid system that is in desperate need of upgrading. My vision of a build aligns closely to what Blobbonator is running. 

 

I'm hoping to run an i7-12700k with the following workloads:

Daily driver/Gaming VM: 8 P-Cores with an older GTX 1070 passed throughs

Unraid and Dockers (Plex primarily, with max of 3-4 transcodes, but hopefully room to grow by a couple if necessary): Using the E-Cores and iGPU for Plex transcoding

 

If I read correctly, the iGPU will work fine following the steps outlined above and that currently the only potential drawback would be the lack of support for 2.5Gbps, until Unraid moves to 5.15 for the kernel (Does this mean the onboard NIC won't work at all, or that it won't run at 2.5Gb? Will I need a separate 1Gb NIC in the interim?).