January 22, 20179 yr I'm in the thinkering box for if I should do a upgrade or not. My server will run the following on the new hardware. 2 VMs for gaming, with a single GPU passthrough to each VM. they must be able to game at the same time, so the CPU can not be the bottleneck A few dockers, but the most hungry one will be plex, and sometime-altho rarely it will transcode, and I would hate to ruin the experience on the gaming or the telly watching. Soo.. I haven't been in the hardware game for quite some time, since the last box I build is my current platform, and it's a I7-860 with a passmark @ 5070 points, with a single tread mark @ 1224 12 gig of DDR3 RAM non-ECC Motherboard is Asus P7P55D GTX 770 and a HD5850 GFX cards, whereas the GTX 770 is a recent upgrade because I'm having a small weekcation and I wanted to game newer games, without risking the marriage. In a year or so I will need to create a gaming PC for my son, but I would perfer to use a hypervisor like Unraid, in order to get all the benefits that such a setup provides. Having all the family's hardware in a single box would also be a super + DDR3 vs. DDR4 is not an bottleneck today when it come to gaming, will it be in 4-5 years? If it will, I should maby go for a motherboard that support DDR4 - ECC is not an big issue for me, but a nice-to-have ------------------------ Both CPUs have its pros and cons, but - what to choose? As I understand it, the DX12 will support better use of multi core CPUs in the future, and if the game programmers will go that direction, then i think it's a no brainer what to choose due to the cheap E5 CPUs on ebay, the board will be quite expensive on the other hand If you were to upgrade today with the above requirements, what would you choose?? Personly I wold go for a dual E5 setup, but i'm afraid that it does not contain enough single core performance so the CPU will bottleneck. Remember. I have little or no experience in a new box, and I will need to read up on alot of things before I go out and buy anything. I would perfer IPMI, ECC, super computepower - but will that setup have enough oumf per core, and will it be to powerhungry? kind regards.
January 22, 20179 yr For gaming i'd probably choose a single e5 with a high clock speed. Probably a Xeon E5-1650v4 Stock @3.6ghz -- turbo 3.8ghz. Passmark 14364 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=274-000A-00083&cm_re=e5_1650_v4-_-274-000A-00083-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182927&cm_re=x10srl-f-_-13-182-927-_-Product Don't know if it would handle 2 people gaming at the same time plus HD plex streaming though.... Guess it would depend on the games being played.
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