[email protected] Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 I have been saving for a while to build a new UNRAID server and have two different builds in mind. I have discussed with a friend, who has never used UNRAID. I will be using the server for media, ftp, virtual machines, and whatever other cool ideas I can discover. I have never used any AMD products in the past and want to give them a shot, but don't want to be disappointed either. So I thought no better place to get information than the UNRAID forum and people that have experience. The difference in the two builds will be the CPU and motherboard, I want to run a virtual gaming rig and don't know which way to go, or if I'm totally in the wrong direction. More cores or overclock potential, I'm really new to this, but for a server my gut says cores, please help. Also with each motherboard I lose SATA connectors when installing M.2 drives do I need a super expensive expansion card or will just about any work now with UNRAID. CPU #1: Ryzen 9 3950X CPU #2: Intel 10900K MB: #1: Asus TUF Gaming X570 Plus MB #2: ASRock Z490 Velocita Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance 3000mhz Cache drives: (2) M.2 1tb 970 EVO HDD: (4) Western Digital Red 4tb drives, 5400? PS: 750 watt, to little if I add graphics later? PCIe SATA Expansion ???????? Quote Link to comment
Energen Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 While it's entirely possible to have a gaming machine hosted on Unraid --- a few people do -- I personally feel that it's too much trouble to get working good and still will never have the full experience of a dedicated gaming machine. I could be completely wrong. If you plan on gaming then you 100% need a graphics card. If you plan on gaming with modern, intensive games, you 100% need a powerful CPU. A lot of / some of / a few, I don't really know, have gaming rigs using a Threadripper processor.. which means money. You need the performance. Is it possible with a Ryzen 9? Probably. I can't say for sure. If you go ahead with this build .. I'd probably change your configuration to use one of the M2 nvme as a passthrough for the gaming VM since you need fast disk access, or at the least add a SATA SSD drive. Are you planning on using a parity drive? That will be one of the 4TB drives leaving you with 3 for data. For gaming -- 64GB RAM is probably sufficient but I still / always believe more is better so I'd jump up to 128GB, and give 64GB to the VM. SATA expansions cards are cheap if you need one.. nothing major there. Quote Link to comment
[email protected] Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 Thank you for the info, the virtual gaming setup would be a toy to tinker with later. I have a dedicated gaming rig, but interested in the idea for testing. Failed to explain one of the 4tb drives will be parity and I have a couple of 2tb drives to toss in as well. Quote Link to comment
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