March 7, 201610 yr So I've been rolling with a fairly lightweight unraid server running 5.0.5 and am working through getting ready to upgrade to version 6. It's served me fairly well but I'm sure it could do with some upgrades and I've been browsing the forums and see alot of people taking advantage of running Windows VM's and started thinking about converting my old gaming pc over. Currently I have it running as basically my sandbox pc... mostly using it to remote into from work and browsing the web. Obviously the specs are better than my current server but would I have issue's with the components in the old pc? Would it support gaming? Not something I would do often but maybe running a another instance of an MMO is possible. For Reference my Unraid server is currently for Emby/SabNZB/NZBDrone and is running AMD A4-3400 APU with Radeon HD Graphics @ 2.7 GHz Gigabyte GA-A75M-S2V 4 GB PC3-12800 Ram 5 x drives (12TB) Cache (Non-SSD) Old PC: Intel® Core i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz Asus P6X58-E PRO 12 GB PC3-10700 ASUS GTX680-DC2T-2GD5 I do have a Crucial SSD C300 256GB in it that I would leverage as the VM and/or Cache drive. I feel like it would be a good swap. I'm a bit apprehensive with doing it though as I do most everything with this pc other than gaming. Nothing I couldn't recover from though. Edit: Think I'm answering my gaming question as being not possible without another GPU as I wouldn't be able to passthru correct? What other limitations would I experience without another GPU? apologies if I've asking questions already answered. Perusing the board now trying to delve deeper into this.
March 7, 201610 yr That is an older CPU and does not appear to support VT-d. You need VT-d support on the CPU in order to support GPU passthrough, along with a motherboard that supports VT-d and a supported video card. I couldn't verify whether your Asus P6X58-E PRO supports VT-d, but I am doubtful.
March 8, 201610 yr Author I didn't even think to check for VT support. Thanks for pointing that out! Was hoping I could upgrade a bit without spending any money but guess I'll be looking for a cheap and decent mb/cpu replacement.
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