For my build I want to be able to run basically everything unraid provides, I want to run maybe 2 to 3 vms with direct i/o for the gpu's (Gonna be two GTX 750 Ti's plus either a GTX 760 or a 970 in the future, but I'm gonna have one in there for now an EVGA GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB Superclocked), a plex/couchpotato/sickbeard/mythtv(for silicondust cable card setup i wanna get.) A proxy setup to run the computers in my house thru a sophos UTM setup, and anything else that tickles my fancy in the future. My absolute upper limit is a max of 1700 dollars, and here is what I have picked out right now:

 

Phanteks Enthoo Pro Series ATX Full tower case (No Window Version, chose because it supports ssi eeb): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811854004

 

Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive (x2): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834

 

SeaSonic Platinum SS-860XP2 860W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151111

 

SAMSUNG 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Server Memory Model M393A2G40DB0-CPB (On the Mobo QVL List, and will add more sticks in the future as needed) x3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147382

 

Crucial MX200 2.5" 250GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT250MX200SSD1 (LOVE Crucial SSD's Wouldn't use anyone else): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148948

 

Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 Haswell-EP 3.5 GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 10MB L3 Cache LGA 2011-3 140W BX80644E51620V3 Server Processor (x1, for now): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117512

 

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120 mm PWM Fan (Gotta keep it cool yo ): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099

 

Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM (Mmm arctic silver...my favorite kind of silver): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007

 

GIGABYTE MD70-HB1 E-ATX / SSI EEB Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011-3 Intel C612 (Gotta keep that expandability open!): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128769

 

EVGA 02G-P4-3658-KR GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST SuperClocked 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card (I have this lying around and will be used till i add a couple 750 ti's and maybe another card): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130910

 

So will this all work together as planned? No PCI Passthrough bullshit issues? Etc.

 

Oh and the build I laid out is because expandability in the future is important for me - even if I just pick up used cpus from ebay .

Anyone got any thoughts on the build? Like, is it compatible with what I want to do, etc...

Here is my build

RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION 4 16x slots and 8 ram slots up to 64GB ram ( 128 on xeons )

CPU 4930K ( going for a 12 core later on )

32 GB ram.

290x windforce

 

I Recently did a unraid gaming build with 2 gaming VM's, running plesk and transmissions with spare cpu cycles.

What i found out, while running every thing and benchmarking i still have 20% - 30% CPU left.

If i want to run a 3 or even 4th gaming vm will have to upgrade the cpu

 

Fist off yes your build will work, it just seems a bit expensive for what you need.

 

I would say for what you want to do is going for a 6 or even 8 core xeon, can get them cheap on ebay.

For ram ECC vs not ECC wont matter in your case.

For the mother board if you go with socket 2011 and ddr3 you will be able to get away with a bit cheaper.

For the GPU's it depends on what you are going to do, if you want to game and use steam link i would recommend getting at least a 290x or 970.

For my motherboard and CPU i paid $600 CAD so if your lucky you can get away for something like this for cheap.

For the PSU i have a rm850i and tested with a power meter. with my current setup already pulling 470W with everything just running. The PSU is where i always buy quality its the one component that can break everything if it fails really bad.