October 6, 20169 yr Hi, I am after upgrading my existing rig and want to be able to transcode Plex, Airvideo and Virtualize at least one workstation, possibly even a gaming rig later down the road. I expect only two of these are ever likely to be used simultaneously but I like having some overhead and future expand-ability. I currently have 13 HDD in my Unraid array, a mixture of 2tb and 6Tb as I slowly replace the smaller drives. I have finally settled on the CPU and Motherboard below and welcome any feedback before I press the button. Thanks for looking. Adam Intel Xeon E5 2650 V3 QS Intel site confirms it supports VT-r http://ark.intel.com/products/81705/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2650-v3-25M-Cache-2_30-GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2650+v3+%40+2.30GHz http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-V3-QS-2-2Ghz-25MB-L3-10-Core-Max-Turbo-2-8Ghz-105W-Haswell-E-/351732777751?hash=item51e4e84317:g:5CwAAOSw1KxXNVQq Supermicro MBD-X10SRA-O Server ATX Motherboard Manual says it supports VT-r http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10sra.cfm https://www.scan.co.uk/products/supermicro-mbd-x10sra-o-intel-c612-s-2011-ddr4-sata3-6gbps-gigabit-lan-usb-30-atx EDIT: I hear Supermicro can be fussy about Ram. I am thinking about 2x8Gb of ECC ram. Any suggestions would be most welcome!
October 6, 20169 yr This would be an awesome Plex transcoder but the slower clock speed might limit your future gaming options as games tend to prefer a small number of fast cores. 16GB would be fine for unRAID and one large VM but if you want to run several VMs then you should size them out and consider more RAM. Looks like a fun build .
October 7, 20169 yr Author Thanks for the feedback. I decided to buy the processor in the end as they were flying off Ebay so I am stuck with it now. I am sure it will be fine. Any advice on Ram or whether an SSD will improve transfer speeds? Thank you.
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