June 12, 201610 yr Hey all, About to make the jump, but before I do, I want to double check if anyone can see any problems with my specs; ASRock H170 fatal1ty Performance 750w PSU Intel Core i5-6600 16gb DDR4 (easily upgradable to 32gb if my testing goes well and I think I need it) nVidia Ge-Force GTX960 5x WD Red 3TB SSD: 1x 250gb, 1x500gb 1x 4TB Seagate Baracuda IBM ServeRaid M1015 Running in IT (or maybe JBOD) Mode, simply for more SATA ports, no RAID functionality used. My main aim will be a Windows 10 machine that I play the odd game in (not a heavy gamer, hence only the GTX960). Then I'll run Docker for all my Plex etc needs. I have a bit of a homelab at the moment with a couple of Server 2012 R2 VM's as well, but I don't see that being a problem either. I have verified the CPU & Motherboard both support VT-x and VT-d Just want to know if anyone sees any problems with the above? Thank you in advance.
June 12, 201610 yr I would recommend getting 32GB RAM. unRAID doesn't need a lot of RAM but dockers and VMs etc all do. And trust me, it gets very very annoying when your VM is killed out of the blue because of insufficient memory. Also, check if your motherboard allow to set the integrated graphics as primary. I remember reading something about issues when passing through nVidia GPU, on 1st PCIe slot as the primary / only GPU.
June 12, 201610 yr Author It sure does allow me to do that. Screenshot: https://goo.gl/i3zdsQ That makes sense I guess - you want the video card completely un-used for the host to be able to pass it through properly. Thanks
June 13, 201610 yr It sure does allow me to do that. Screenshot: https://goo.gl/i3zdsQ That makes sense I guess - you want the video card completely un-used for the host to be able to pass it through properly. Thanks You can actually pass through the GPU even if it's the only GPU on the system - you will just lose the ability to get back to the console (e.g. need to SSH in instead). It's just that nVidia GPU doesn't like it.
June 13, 201610 yr [quote author=Ignitenz link=topic=49722.msg476816#msg476816 date=1465762059 nVidia Ge-Force GTX960 i'd suggest a radeon based gpu. i had no success passing through a geforce card and there's been a good amount written on the difficulties.
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