Inspiration:
Hello fellow Gamers and Hardware experts,
first of all, for those who are interested, the tale:
Goal
A PC build which allows the laziest 3 - 4 Gamers to attend a LAN-Party while only bringing their mouse and keyboard (and their USB-Headset)
I have:
a "flexible" budget, but I want to spent es less money as reasonable possible
a AMD HD7850, 2x AMD 560, 1x Nvidia 980, therefore I should be good on the required GPUs for now
I think I need:
a motherboard with at least 4x PCIe 3.0 4x slots and "nice IOMMU groups" which do allow for GPU passthrough
4 cores per Person would be nice, but 3 cores per Person should be fine as well
6+ GiB of RAM per Person
What comes to mind:
a AMD 1920X build (64x PCIe 3.0; 12 Cores). CPU sells new for 250, motherboards with 4x PCIe 4x start at 300, 32 GiB DDR4 2666 start at 110
some cheap old Intel server hardware?
The Questions:
Q1) Alternatives to a x399 / 1920X build?
Q1a) Cheap Intel LGA 1567/2011 server hardware?
Q1b) Maybe even first generation AMD EPIC hardware? (unlikely that they will go out of use any time soon, and way more expensive then 1920X if bought new)
Q2) Any personal experiences to tell?
Q3) [!] How do I make sure that GPU Passthrough will work?
Looking forward to your suggestions 😃
