February 13, 20206 yr Hey guys hope all is well with the community. I am trying to use a Ryzen setup for gaming here is what I have so far. AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 1920X Processor ASUS ROG Strix X399-E Gaming sTR4 AMD X399 EATX AMD Motherboard Going to use 2 5500XT cards and another card to setup the unraid server I want to be sure that I could do this and run this well
February 15, 20206 yr The TR and X399 generally work quite well for gaming (I currently have a Zenith Extreme and a 2950x). GPU passthrough is easy enough, but there -may- be reset issues with your AMD cards. I think I came across a post talking about using a custom kernel with a patch that addressed this problem. You don't necessarily need another video card as once you have everything set up you can stub the video card in slot 1 and your server is still functional although you'll need to connect to it through another computer. With another video card chances are one of your 5500XT cards will be in a x8 slot which technically doesn't matter. No recent Asus x399 motherboard allows you to pick the primary GPU slot so it defaults to slot 1 and there goes your main x16 slot. With my 2950x I can run three gaming VMs extremely well (two connected to monitors and one is used for streaming but is still connected to one of the other monitors). Sean
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.