sunkenrat Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Hey i want to upgrade my hardware in my unraid build. So i can install windows 8 and game on it. i have looked at these 2 motherboards ASRock Z97 Extreme4 or ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Professional most the last one because it has 8 sata and 1 esata ports. the cpu i have found Intel Core i7-4790 HR and for now i have a 750ti GPU that i will upgrade later when i got more money. But will all these things work together and be able to use with a windows 10 gaming VM. Quote Link to comment
tinglis1 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I am running very different hardware but have the same GPU. I have had good success with my Asus Strix 750 Ti being passed through to a Win10 vm. I had it working with Win7 and Win8 during testing as well. Some key things that made my 750 Ti usable were the MSI registry patch and CPU pinning. I eventually isolated CPU cores for my gpu vm and after that it runs great. I have bench-marked the 750Ti under the vm using GFXBench and it seems to be on par with those of others using 750Ti cards. Quote Link to comment
sunkenrat Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 i am running a windows vm on my current build. And i can passthrough my 750ti (only i need another gpu installed to unraid also for it to work) Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Hey i want to upgrade my hardware in my unraid build. So i can install windows 8 and game on it. i have looked at these 2 motherboards ASRock Z97 Extreme4 or ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Professional most the last one because it has 8 sata and 1 esata ports. the cpu i have found Intel Core i7-4790 HR and for now i have a 750ti GPU that i will upgrade later when i got more money. But will all these things work together and be able to use with a windows 10 gaming VM. I'm using the Z87 Professional and it's been great. I know the Z97 is newer, but I would expect it to work just as well. Quote Link to comment
kristisdad Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I'm gun-shy on the ASRock Z97 Extreme4. Replaced it - See my post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=43689.0 Quote Link to comment
bungee91 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I have the Z97 Extreme 4 and it works very well, however you will likely need to use the acs downstream option as it doesn't properly segregate devices into their own IOMMU groups. If you only have a single GPU installed, this may not be an issue, but all 16X (sized, not wired) slots get grouped together. Quote Link to comment
sunkenrat Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 i must admit, i am very new in all this. so if there are better options i am open for suggestions. just that it works with VM and have as many data port as possible. Quote Link to comment
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