Planned switch to AMD | need hardware recommendations

[Maddeen]

Hi there, 

 

due to the very good price I plan to send my i7 6700 to the retirement and make a change to AMD Ryzen 9 (or) 7 series with a B550 board

Depends on the keynote tomorrow. 

 

Can some one provide me some information that can be very essential or maybe some incompatibility with unraid? 

 

About my unRAID server/ my needs / requirements:

Running unRaid headless (HDMI dummy at the HDMI Mainboard-Port) 

Using plex/pi-hole as dockers

And running only one Win10 Gaming VM - Q35 with a passthrough NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super // a NVMe Samsung 970 m.2 and an USB controller for separate keyboard/mouse.  

In addition to have more SATA ports I also installed a PCI-E extension card with a JMicron JMS585 chipset. 

And I plan to add a 10GB-NiC asap - either by another PCI-E extension card or maybe built-in in my new B550 board. (not sure if there is any MB with a 10GB-NiC)

If anybody got a recommendation for a 10Gbe PCI-E extenstion card --- you're welcome  

 

What I know so far is not that much 🙈 I just found out that I need to buy a cheap PCI-E GPU because the AMD CPUs dont have a IGPU. 

And thats it - I doesn't found any further problems/challenges for Ryzen 9/7 - all other struggels seems to relate on using a Threadripper. 

 

Thanks in advance for any help or information regarding my planed upgrade. 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2020 by Maddeen

[rachid596]

Hi there, 
 
due to the very good price I plan to send my i7 6700 to the retirement and make a change to AMD Ryzen 9 (or) 7 series with a B550 board
Depends on the keynote tomorrow. 
 
Can some one provide me some information that can be very essential or maybe some incompatibility with unraid? 
 
About my unRAID server/ my needs / requirements:
Running unRaid headless (HDMI dummy at the HDMI Mainboard-Port) 
Using plex/pi-hole as dockers
And running only one Win10 Gaming VM - Q35 with a passthrough NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super // a NVMe Samsung 970 m.2 and an USB controller for separate keyboard/mouse.  
In addition to have more SATA ports I also installed a PCI-E extension card with a JMicron JMS585 chipset. 
And I plan to add a 10GB-NiC asap - either by another PCI-E extension card or maybe built-in in my new B550 board. (not sure if there is any MB with a 10GB-NiC)
 
What I know so far is not that much  I just found out that I need to buy a cheap PCI-E GPU because the AMD CPUs dont have a IGPU. 
And thats it - I doesn't found any further problems/challenges for Ryzen 9/7 - all other struggels seems to relate on using a Threadripper. 
 
Thanks in advance for any help or information regarding my planed upgrade. 
 
 

B550 Motherboards is not good for iommu groups. I don't know if a bios correct this. Choose an x570 it's better.

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[Maddeen]

Ahhh thanks for this useful tip. I need working iommu groups due to the need of passthrough. 
 

[Kanashii]

47 minutes ago, rachid596 said:

B550 Motherboards is not good for iommu groups. I don't know if a bios correct this. Choose an x570 it's better.

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Any recommendation? Also it's better a 10Gbps pcie card or buy a complete solution inside the own motherboard? Thanks.

[rachid596]

I have personnally an asus rog crosshair viii hero wifi with a 3900x. I have a lot of docker, one vm with usb passthrough for home assistant. 1 vm for gaming with usb, nvme, gpu rtx 2060 passthrough.


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[Maddeen]

Ok - After analyzing a lot of mainboard test regarding PCI-E Lane Sharing, SATA-Ports and M.2 connectivity - only two mainboards remain to fit my needs. 

 

1) ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi)

2) Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE

 

Are there some members here who already have one of those in combination with a Ryzen CPU and can share their experience?

 

Thanks in advance - have a nice weekend.

[rachid596]

For aorus you can look here:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/85374-gigabyte-x570-aorus-elite-pro-wifi-ultra-tips-tricks/

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[Maddeen]

Ahh nice - thank you very much @rachid596. Do you got a recommendation for a 10Gb NIC, too?

Edited October 11, 2020 by Maddeen

[rachid596]

On 10/11/2020 at 2:54 PM, Maddeen said:

Ahh nice - thank you very much @rachid596. Do you got a recommendation for a 10Gb NIC, too?

no sorry

[Cliff]

I have the ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (non-wifi). I would not recomend you to buy this board. I have two gpus but can only use one of them as the system hogs one of them and stubbing does not make any difference. I have a multi-controller USB pci-e x4 whitch I can't connect, so I had to use a single controller usb x1 to be able to get some more usable usb-ports for vm's. Adding a third pci-x1 gpu to use as dummy disables the network.