September 8, 20232 yr I used to build PCs back when I was a kid, but that was years ago now and I'm trying to catch my hardware knowledge up to current specs. I have Unraid running on an old computer that was given to me. Motherboard – Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97 CPU – Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz RAM – 16GB GPU – Geforce GTS 250 1GB RAM I was thinking of giving the GPU a little upgrade. My goal is to be able to run AOE2:HD in a VM on this rig. The current GPU won't do it (and I can't even get it to passthrough in a VM). What GPU would you suggest? Is a GPU upgrade worth it or would I basically need to start from the motherboard on up? My limited research has me concluding that some of the other components still have some value, but we're talking almost a 9 year old rig here from the looks of it. fatfarmhqserver-diagnostics-20230908-1806.zip
September 27, 20232 yr Haswell can support 10 series cards just fine. Looking at AoE2, it seems like it didn't have specific GPU requirements so any GPU you can pass through should be fine. I would troubleshoot your pass-through problems first. You will never get going if you can't get the GPU to the guest OS.
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