September 21, 20196 yr I currently run unRAID with a Ryzen 1700 setup. It's stable (if I disable C-states) and for my day-to-day stuff, it works. However, I have recently started tinkering with the idea, of creating a server that's powerful enough to handle two simultaneous gaming sessions. I am mainly using Docker containers (Sonarr, Radarr, Plex etc) and a few Windows VMs for learning purposes. So while not super resource heavy, I doubt that my single Ryzen CPU will handle two additional Windows 10 gaming machines. So I looked into my possibilities and I saw a guy selling 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (10 cores, 20 threads) for $400 in Europe. The Passmark score is higher than my current Ryzen CPU (for single core as well), but I am wondering if the lower clock speed is going to be a hinderance? I plan to allocate 6 cores for each gaming VM. If it sounds like a decent idea, can you recommend a motherboard as well? I was hoping to get the following features: PWM connections for fans WoL IPMI/iDRAC/iLO/etc. Maybe an extra PCI slot for a quad NIC.
September 23, 20196 yr On 9/21/2019 at 6:43 PM, diskplace said: I currently run unRAID with a Ryzen 1700 setup. It's stable (if I disable C-states) and for my day-to-day stuff, it works. However, I have recently started tinkering with the idea, of creating a server that's powerful enough to handle two simultaneous gaming sessions. I am mainly using Docker containers (Sonarr, Radarr, Plex etc) and a few Windows VMs for learning purposes. So while not super resource heavy, I doubt that my single Ryzen CPU will handle two additional Windows 10 gaming machines. So I looked into my possibilities and I saw a guy selling 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (10 cores, 20 threads) for $400 in Europe. The Passmark score is higher than my current Ryzen CPU (for single core as well), but I am wondering if the lower clock speed is going to be a hinderance? I plan to allocate 6 cores for each gaming VM. If it sounds like a decent idea, can you recommend a motherboard as well? I was hoping to get the following features: PWM connections for fans WoL IPMI/iDRAC/iLO/etc. Maybe an extra PCI slot for a quad NIC. would you be interested in a EP2C602-4L/D16, 2x E5-2690 , 64gb ECC memory ?
September 23, 20196 yr Author I ended up rolling with a Ryzen build. I got the server board from Asrock, which has IPMI and support for ECC RAM.
September 23, 20196 yr I would be interested, BUT I live in Switzerland. Please PM and chat offline. Much appreciated
September 25, 20196 yr This is also a question I've been asking myself. I came across this article which elaborates a bit more on the Intel 'Core' and 'Xeon' processors, including their features, and which one may be best for you. https://www.thegeekpub.com/8565/xeon-vs-core-i7/ Hope that helps. Cheers
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