December 20, 20196 yr Hello, I am looking for some feedback from the members of this great community. I currently run an Intel 3750K / 8GB Corsair / Asus P8Z77-V LK / 5 x 4TB WD RED / OS on 120GB SSD / Win 10. I have a second machine running a projector @ 1080p and Hass.IO running on a Pi that has been overworked for too long. I'm ready to make the switch to Unraid. I want to merge several separate devices and have a single point of failure instead, lol. I'm not looking to upgrade every couple years. I'm fine spending now if it buys me 5-10 years of operation and I am able to centrally wire everything. My plan is to run the following: NZBGet, Sonarr, Radarr, HASS.io, Unifi Manager, Plex Media Server, Plex Media Player (1 -4K TV, 2 - 1080P TVs which could be pooled), a Win 10 VM and probably other misc. stuff that I've forgotten. I'm one of those guys that hasn't touched AMD in a decade+ since I was plagued by their incompatibilities and half-baked implementations of the time. I'm still bitter from way back when they had glass dies on CPUs. However based on what I've read it seems like that's the way to go these days. I'm thinking of going with the following and welcome any feedback. My primary concern is bottlenecks on disk I/O and I don't want to overspend in one area and have a bottleneck elsewhere render that decision wasteful. I also want to make sure that the build can run the above and perhaps be used for gaming down the road. GPU passthru will be wanted. Cost isn't so much of a concern, but I am in Canada so everything is at a 30% premium. AMD Ryzen 3900X 32GB Ram, not sure which brand 970 EVO SSD for VMs 2TB Crucial SSD for Cache Currently have 5 x 4TB WD Reds but probably will upgrade to 8TB or 10TB over time Motherboard? I tend to buy Asus and don't care about remote access Horizontal case with space for 6-8 3.5" Drives Video card? Do I need multiple to run a 4K playback TV for plex, possibly games down the road. What about the 1080p displays? Ideally I'd have a passthru for the 4k TV as that is where anything intensive would take place. The 3900X is $700CAD. Are PCIe lanes of concern with this proposed build? Threadrippers are $950-1000 here so quite a bit more expensive. Am I missing the boat here and there is a better Intel solution? Any additional feedback on this? Am I going to notice the PCIe lane difference? I don't mind building overkill, but I don't want to be battling with compatibility issues, performance problems, etc. as a result of going too bleeding-edge or under-sizing key components either. Any and all feedback is much appreciated! Thank you.
December 21, 20196 yr Author No replies yet so maybe I've asked too many questions or written too much... I'll try to boil this down. I'm wanting to confirm the 3900x is the way I should go here vs. the 2950x or an i9, and if in the setup I described, are PCIe lanes something I should be concerned with and will two video cards be what I need? Any feedback is welcome, I'm doing a lot of research but a five minute answer from someone knowledgeable would save me a lot of time. No replies yet so maybe I've asked too many questions or written too much... I'll try to boil this down. I'm wanting to confirm the 3900x is the way I should go here vs. the 2950x or an i9, and if in the setup I described, are PCIe lanes something I should be concerned with and will two video cards be what I need? Any feedback is welcome, I'm doing a lot of research but a five minute answer from someone knowledgeable would save me a lot of time.
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