January 11, 201610 yr I had a similar post in the CPU's sub-forum but bringing it in here as I need advice on all the kit.... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=45389.0 So what do I want. Essentially an unRAID NAS and to run 3 or more VM's (maybe dockers too), only one potentially intensive: [*]Basic Windows 7 for torrenting and my VPN. Might also run MakeMKV on this. It's just easier to run a VM here and install HMA VPN software on Windows. Think I might need Enterprise for NFS shares? [*]A desktop VM where I can do some web development work. Probably a flavour of Windows but might use OS X. [*]HTPC VM for running JRiver or KODI. This will be the intensive one as I want to try JRivers high quality settings. My NAS will be using 3 x 3TB drives plus 3 x 2TB drives from my current Windows Server 2012 machine. I'll probably add 2 more which I'll use to get unRAID up and running before copying over data. I'd like to use SSD for my VM's and I'll have a spare 64GB one from my HTPC but not sure if that is of any use (might be too small). First I need a CPU. My choices are below: i7-6700K i7-5820K i7-4790K E5-2620V3 E5-1620V3 Unfortunately the E5-1650V3 is too expensive Due to costs I'm now heavily favouring the i7-5820K as I'm hoping of a knock on effect of a cheaper motherboard and RAM. I want this machine to be very quiet so I'll also need a recommendation for a CPU cooler. I need a recommendation for a motherboard where I can run at least three graphics cards or a board with onboard graphics (or CPU graphics) for unRAID plus two for my VM's. The other VM/VMs I'll probably use TeamViewer or RDP to access. I'd like multiple Ethernet ports for teaming or at least assigning Ethernets to separate VM's (if possible). I can of course get over this issue by installing good quality, multi-port NIC's. I'll need a lot of SATA ports but I do have a Dell HERC H200 that I can take from my Windows Server machine if that can be used (or indeed wouldn't cause a bottle neck). I'm most likely using a Silverstone GD08 case which can take ATX boards. I'm thinking 32GB RAM is possibly too much but then 16GB is too little. I'll stick with 32 so recommendations on RAM would be helpful to match CPU and motherboard. I have a Zotac GT730 from my HTPC machine which I can use for my desktop VM so I'll need a good discrete graphics card for my HTPC VM. I'm thinking an ASUS 960 Strix 4GB but I seem to have seen it mentioned that Nvidia cards have issues with audio passthrough. Is this the case as I need to do bitstreaming? May need an additional cheap GPU for unRAID if the CPU/board can't help me out there. To get me started storage wise I'll get two 3TB Reds as they are still the best bang for buck here in Ireland. These will get me going on the storage front. I will need caching SSD's but not entirely sure what to do there. Do I need 2? What size? Assume I could be copying anything up to 300GB over to the storage array in any given day (not often, might happen once a week that I'd do a batch copy to the array). I appreciate any feedback. I only realised today that it's been about 9 years since I last built quite a high performance machine so I'm a bit out of touch.
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