R-Rizzo Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Leifgg Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 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 Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 A decent 300W will do the job. For cheap and cheerful, the Corsair CS450M is a good unit. Link to comment
archedraft Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
tdallen Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I like the Seasonic in my sig. You can step it down to 450w, I believe. Link to comment
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