Hello, I'm new here and English is not my main language so i hope you will understand me !

So, i have a question, will a Ryzen 1400 be enough for two "small" gaming machines ?

This processor have 4 cores and 8 threads so can i make my main pc with 2 cores 4 threads and the VM also with 2 cores 4 threads ?

So it will "approximatively" have the power of a Pentium G4560 ?

My specs are :

4X4 GB of RAM (8 GB for each PCs i think ?)

GTX 1060 3GB for my main pc

GTX 580(?) for the VM

2 HDDs

 

But is the processor enough for 2 gaming machines ? To play games like Minecraft, Far cry 5 (Maybe), GTA V ... ?

Thanks for the answers !

Flip the gpu assignments. Also you understand your unraid needs some resources too correct? With that being the case with this processor go with a single VM with hardware passthrough this using the second GPU slot for the passthrough as Ryzen doesn’t have integrated graphics on the 1400. If you decide to do 2 gaming PCs on this it can be tricky. I wouldn’t assign both fully, maybe 2 cpus on one and a different 2 or 4 on the gaming one. RAM don’t assign all 8GB as the VM uses over the allocation by 10% on average. I’d go with 6GB assignee max per VM with these specs. Also you understand unraid is a Slackware fork and probably won’t game. The OS lives on a USB drive meaning performance isn’t for using like a normal PC. If that is your thought reconsider. But 2 VMs is doable but the processor won’t likely be enough for much more than 1 VM with decent specs. 1600 is dropping in price for the extra 30-40 bucks it gives 2 more cores with 4 threads. Also don’t go lower than a B350 motherboard. You give up too much. 

 

Watch gridrunners videos, walkthroughs are good. Youtube look for Spaceinvader One, that’s his channel. 

Edited April 11, 20188 yr by phbigred

So are you saying that just Unraid needs at least 1 core ?

So it won't be possible to have 2 cores and 4 thread on each of the two PCs because this CPU only have 4 cores and 8 threads ?

Hi -

 

unRAID isn't a hypervisor.  It's an operating system, with an included hypervisor.  I think you'd be happy using unRAID - but you need to plan for sufficient resources for the operating system to run.  That includes at least a core (with hyper-threaded companion) and some RAM.

You probably don't need to CPU pin.  Some people say doing that can actually slow an emulated machine down.

What is CPU pin ? Sorry i'm a total noob

CPU Pinning is what you're doing - assigning a VM specific cores.  So VM1 you might tell it to use Core 0 and Core 1 only, VM2 you might tell it to use Core 2 and 3 only - that's core or CPU pinning.

 

You don't need to do it in my opinion, let KVM do it automagically and you generally end up with better performance.

So will a Ryzen 1400 be enough for 2 gaming machine ?

5 hours ago, HellDiverUK said:

CPU Pinning is what you're doing - assigning a VM specific cores.  So VM1 you might tell it to use Core 0 and Core 1 only, VM2 you might tell it to use Core 2 and 3 only - that's core or CPU pinning.

 

You don't need to do it in my opinion, let KVM do it automagically and you generally end up with better performance.

 

1 minute ago, ClémentRED said:

So will a Ryzen 1400 be enough for 2 gaming machine ?

 

It should, but go for a 1600 if you can afford it.