June 23, 201511 yr Alright, so I'm finally going to do this after lurking around for several years. I'm starting from scratch. I think I've settled on an I5-4690 on an ASRock H97M Pro4. With either 8 or 16gb of ram. Probably going to start with 4 drives. 2 data, a parity, and a cache. I'll be running the standard dockers, plex, sabnzbd, sickbeard, etc. and maybe dabble just a little in VM's. From what I've read, both the 4690 and the ASRock support Vt-d. Now I just need to settle on a power supply. It will probably only be the 4 drives for awhile. Is there a good calculator somewhere for PSU capacity? Anything else I need to take into consideration or I'm overlooking.
June 23, 201511 yr Alright, so I'm finally going to do this after lurking around for several years. I'm starting from scratch. I think I've settled on an I5-4690 on an ASRock H97M Pro4. With either 8 or 16gb of ram. Probably going to start with 4 drives. 2 data, a parity, and a cache. I'll be running the standard dockers, plex, sabnzbd, sickbeard, etc. and maybe dabble just a little in VM's. From what I've read, both the 4690 and the ASRock support Vt-d. Now I just need to settle on a power supply. It will probably only be the 4 drives for awhile. Is there a good calculator somewhere for PSU capacity? Anything else I need to take into consideration or I'm overlooking. Have a look at this thread for a lot of good info about power supplies: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12219.0
June 23, 201511 yr A decent 300W will do the job. For cheap and cheerful, the Corsair CS450M is a good unit.
June 23, 201511 yr A decent 300W will do the job. For cheap and cheerful, the Corsair CS450M is a good unit. I agree that is a good PSU! I used it for about a year. From what I've read, both the 4690 and the ASRock support Vt-d. One more thought, it sounds like you may want to create VM's in the future and use VT-d to passthrough devices? If so, make sure you pick a PSU large enough to support any graphic cards you may want to passthrough to a VM. I ended up buying a larger PSU to support both my GPU's once I started messing with VM's.
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