Saying hello and showing my system off 56k warning :P

[captinboost]

Gooday all,

 

I have been on unraid for about 8 months now.

 

My reasons for use, well i love virtualization, all the way down to the frustration of it lol.

I also have two children who wanted computers, and a love for movies, so you can imagine how happy i was to find that unraid can control my storage and run the kids at the same time, well that wasnt enough so what my system does is

 

Holds a a 7tb array (Friggan almost full already)

Runs three VMs Mine and both of the kids

 

The system is pretty much at its limit but holds up well with all three of us playing skyrim Special edition(with mods)

 

The specs are:

CPU: 4790k overclocked to 4.8ghz

Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Vii hero

RAM: 24gb hyperx running at the stock 1600Mhz

HDD:1x 120gb samsung SSD (cache) 4x 2tb WD Greens, 1x 1tb hitachi <was laying around

Powersupply: 600w thermaltake EVO (with flashy lights adds more leet:P)

GPU's: Unraid gpu is onboard intel, mine is a gtx970, the kids use a gtx560 <the frustion is real when i need to reboot and a r9 270

Cooling: Custom loop, 560x50x140 rad cpu and gpu blocks d9 pump, massive res

 

As seen in the attached images the system is bolted to the wall in a custom made cupboard made by yours truly, I am using hdmi over Ethernet ebay specials to run video and usb into each of the kids rooms as well as my pc into the bed room. ask if you would like a link i have tested them over about 15mtrs and had some pretty good success out of them.

 

well thats the braggin out the way now pics:P

I hope you all enjoy and keen for a chat any time

.......>warning lots of images below<...........

 

When we are all smashing skyrim or a game of the sorts

 

The Box creation and internals:

 

 

 

 

Cabling:

 

 

 

System Stats:

 

 

And Last but not least the "almost" finished product:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[De1taE1even]

That's pretty darned cool. I'm about to wire my house for ethernet so I'm interested in the adapters you used for usb/hdmi over cat6. What adaptor(s) did you use?

[captinboost]

thanks for the response mate I appreciate it,  I spent hours on this setup lol

 

The USB ones I got are linked below I ordered 3 sets with one being a dud that was replaced free, expected with made in China stamped to the side lol.

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/220607088294

 

the hdmi ones I used two kinds the first link worked fine for about 10mtrs where as the second link was good and solid over 20mtrs

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121996830549

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/182063727646

both pass audio and video at 60hz flawlessly with only some minor drop out's when lights are turned on,  but that was Found to be caused by running the cat6 to close to the power cables on the light circut.

 

best regards Matthew

any more questions yell out and I appoligise on the late reply