April 28, 201610 yr i've built a good # of PCs in the past, desktops though, no server style machines and certainly nothing designed for unraid. i'd love to get some feedback. this will be for plex, windows and ubuntu VMs, bluray ripping and transcoding, torrenting, probably a small # of dockers and future proofing. CPU: Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Pro4S RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Power Supply: EVGA 220-G2-0550-Y1 Cache pool drives: 2x Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 2.5" 512GB Array and parity drives: 3x HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS40003272SN (0S03664) 4TB i suppose my biggest reluctance is the mobo. a good # of the builds i've viewed here have much pricier models. i don't plan on OC'ing, so i didn't think i needed a fancy mobo. any comments are welcome.
April 29, 201610 yr Good looking build. 32GB is probably overkill unless you are getting heavy into VMs. And if you are doing that, you should be sure that motherboard has VT-d support. Otherwise 16GB would probably be Ok. Don't worry about expensive motherboards, just look for the features you need. Oh, and Intel stock CPU coolers are usually sufficient to keep a non-OC'd CPU cool though third party coolers can be quieter.
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