mikeyosm Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Hi people I am looking at putting a new ITX build together to run PLEX (4k support, 2-3 simul streams) and also 2 or 3 VMs (2 gaming VMs) concurrently. Ideally I want it to be ITX in size so probably looking at a max 32/64GB mem all SSDs/NVMEs and min 8 cores (16 threads). Was looking at z390 asus strix and i9 plus 64GB double height DIMM - might be overkill though. Any recommendations? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
jordanmw Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Pretty sure that is impossible. That mini ITX board only has a single PCIE slot- so only one GPU can be setup. So it will only really be suitable for a single gaming PC. Did see that double height DIMM- but seems like a real niche item. I actually got a 256Mb double DIMM like that back in the celeron 300 days- it worked as expected but did cause clearance issues with other things. Quote Link to comment
mikeyosm Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 22 minutes ago, jordanmw said: Pretty sure that is impossible. That mini ITX board only has a single PCIE slot- so only one GPU can be setup. So it will only really be suitable for a single gaming PC. Did see that double height DIMM- but seems like a real niche item. I actually got a 256Mb double DIMM like that back in the celeron 300 days- it worked as expected but did cause clearance issues with other things. Was thinking of using the Intel gfx onboard for light gaming. Otherwise, I'll have to wait for new AMD refresh and build something from that - might be more cost effective. Quote Link to comment
NewDisplayName Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) 1050 can be passsive cooled and has enaught power for 4k encoding (i use it as seperate graphiccard in my pc only for encoding via nvenc 4k) It also dont need extra power adapter. Edited April 25, 2019 by nuhll Quote Link to comment
jordanmw Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 40 minutes ago, mikeyosm said: Was thinking of using the Intel gfx onboard for light gaming. Otherwise, I'll have to wait for new AMD refresh and build something from that - might be more cost effective. Yeah- I was assuming you were talking about an all around gaming machine. Light gaming should be pretty solid. I think nuhll has the right idea above- that 1050 is a pretty good candidate if you get a passive version and have decent airflow. Quote Link to comment
mikeyosm Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Can the onboard Intel i9 gfx be passed through? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 1 hour ago, mikeyosm said: Can the onboard Intel i9 gfx be passed through? I have no first hand knowledge, but I think it's not possible with the current unraid versions of kernel and qemu. Quote Link to comment
mikeyosm Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 14 minutes ago, jonathanm said: I have no first hand knowledge, but I think it's not possible with the current unraid versions of kernel and qemu. thought as much. Patience required for x570 and Ryzen 3. Quote Link to comment
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