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Thanks for the info on the M.2 SSD I didn't know that about Adata I just saw some good reviews on it. As for your second point I've hit over 32GB of RAM in intense DCS: World Multiplayer missions in VR and I don't want to go less then what I have now which is 64GB and with the 32GB sticks of DDR4 I can always upgrade from 64GB or ram to 128GB if the need or want arises. I agreed the VRMs do not need the water block but the Maxumus XII Formula is the the cheaper of the boards to have a 10Gb LAN. I am a bit of an Asus fanboy when it comes to motherboards, they have always treated me very well and I'm running every Asus ROG Rampage IV board they made between my Wife PC (Rampage IV Extreme), Media Center PC (Rampage IV Gene), Garage PC (Rampage IV Formula) and my own (Rampage IV Black Edition) and I've never had a problem. I have also become pretty good at Overclocking in the Asus biome. I do not have any experience with anything of the newer Asus boards so I can't comment on them yet.

I know AMD could be a better option and I could go RYZEN 9 3900X or 3950X get PCIe 4.0 and all the benefits that come with it and come out the same or maybe a bit more will similar performance to the i9-10900K. I think it was like 10FPS difference (between Intel and AMD depending on the game), but Intel is still optimized for gaming which is my primary workload unless I'm doing work (which is AutoCAD or CATIA) from home and I don't want to use my work laptop. Also I want to keep my 10Gb Networks with out having to add back in my current 10Gb card all the Asus ROG AMD AM4 board have 5Gb or 2.5Gb but no 10Gb. My budge is $2000ish for new with out the water cooling (that would be a later project) and under $1000 for used, it all depends on longevity of the parts, my X79 system has been a beast for this long I have upgraded the cpu from the original 3930K, added the other 32GB kit of RAM and 2x 1080 Ti but it took until the i9-9900K came out for the main stream Intel processors to really make my want to upgrade. I don't see the LGA 1200 socket sticking around for more then one more generation, Intel is going to go smaller architecture and the X299 platform is dead and expensive with no really gaming performance for today's current game with most still relaying on single thread performance.

Hello all, First off I would like to thank you all for your advice and input in advance. I am looking to upgrade my current system and I am looking at used X99 parts or new Z490. I would like to stick to Intel, it is just personal preference. My current system is X79, I'm running a: Asus ROG Rampage IV Black Edition, Xeon E5-1680 V2 at 4.4Ghz and 1.27V, 64GB of DDR3 Corsair Vengeance Pro at 2400Mhz, 1x Crucial MX300 750GB (boot drive), 1x Crucial MX500 1TB (DCS: World & Steam Games), 1x Western Digital RE WD4000FDYZ 4TB (Miscellaneous Storage), 2x EVGA 1080 Ti Black Edition Super Clock (in SLI and yes I know SLI is dead with mild overclock), ASUS XG-C100C 10G network card, EVGA Supernova 1600 P2 Power Supply Thermaltake Level 10 GT (Black) Enermax AIO and Oculus Rift S. I use my computer for Photoshop, AutoCAD and gaming, VR, and DCS: World (also in VR). So I would like to upgrade my computer before the new RTX 3000 series Graphics cards comes out along with the new Microsoft Flight Simulator. I've heard a rumor that the RTX 3000 series my not be compatible with anything older then 5th gen processors, so I want to make sure I can use the card before I buy it. Here are my ideas for the possible build: X99 Build New Parts: Asus ROG Rampage V Edition 10 i7-6900K or E5-1680 V4 (I would love to get the i7-6950X but that is 10900K territory in price), G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 3200 (upgrade to 128GB at a later date), ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 2 TB M.2 (Boot Drive and DCS: World), and 2TB Intel P3500 NVMe U.2 SSD (Steam games and Microsoft Flight Simulator) Old Parts: 2x EVGA 1080 Ti Black Edition Super Clock (Until the RTX 3000 series comes out), ASUS XG-C100C 10G network card, EVGA Supernova 1600 P2 Power Supply, Thermaltake Level 10 GT (Black) and Enermax AIO Pros: DDR4, M.2, U.2, 40 PCIe 3.0 Lanes, USB-C, 128GB of RAM max, cost ($900ish), could use M.2 and RAM in future build and RGB Cons: No upgrade path, buying used parts, same core count as current system unless I go with the i7-6950X and RGB Z490 Build New Parts: Asus ROG Maximus XII Formula, i9-10900K, G.Skill Ripjaws V 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600, ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 2 TB M.2 (Boot Drive and DCS: World), ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 2 TB M.2 (Steam games and Microsoft Flight Simulator), Asus ROG Strix Helios case, and EK Water-cooling (CPU only till RTX 3000 Series comes out) Old Parts: 1x EVGA 1080 Ti Black Edition Super Clock (Until the RTX 3000 series comes out), and EVGA Supernova 1600 P2 Power Supply Pros: DDR4, M.2, USB-C 3.1, 128GB of RAM max, all new parts, CPU could clock 5Ghz+, maybe PCIe 4.0, cool new features and Lots of RGB Cons: Cost ($2,600ish), 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes, No PCIe 4.0 right now, and Lots of RGB I know I could do both builds cheaper if I wanted to, but these are the parts I picked. What do you think would be the better option X99 or Z490 or wait and see what the RTX 3000 series cards really require and or wait till what ever comes out after X299 and go that route or go X299 if it gets cheaper when the next gen comes out?

Thank you all, So here is the update, I’ve been running the server, named HAL (my wife said be careful it may take over the house), for the whole Christmas holiday and been remote monitoring it since we are out of town. I have to say it has been wonderful, I got 2 APC 1500 2U rack mounted battery back ups right after I got the server up and running. Just for safety’s sake and according to UNRIAD I should have 60 minutes of battery time if the power was to go out. UNRAID is set to alert me incase of a power outage. I have yet to install a VM to run my DCS: Server or Minecraft or RUST yet, I ran out of time due to the holidays and how long it took to transfer all the media over to the server. So far I have gotten PLEX up and running, but it’s working wonderfully. I have not been able to pick up a P2000 Quadro yet, I won the bid on one on eBay, but the seller backed out and canceled my order and since then we have been traveling and the prices haven’t been good. So I’m thinking about going with an M4000 Quadro to save some money and wait till the P2000/P4000 comes down in price. The only think different from the P2000 Quadro to the M4000 Quadro is M4000 can’t do encoding and decoding of H.265 (HEVC) 4K YUV 4:4:4, H.265 (HEVC) 4K Lossless, and H.265 (HEVC) 8K, neither the P2000 or M4000 Quadro can do HEVC B Frame support, I would have to go up to an Quadro RTX 5000. Do you think I would see much of a lost going with the M4000 Quadro it has more ram at 8GB vs the 5GB of the P2000 Quadro and is less then half the price? I do not have any 4K+ media most is 1080p or 720p. I do know the M4000 is Maxwell (V2) base vs the newer Pascal base of the P2000 What do you all think?

Thank you for the speedy response, I looked at the RTX Quadro 4000 and it would be a bit of future proofing by I don't have an 4K content yet, so I don't know if it is worth it to spend the money up front or wait till it is a few years old and get it for a better price. I think I will stick with the P2000 Quadro, unless I find a good deal on the RTX Quadro 4000. How much RAM out of the 256GB should I be assign to each VM, is PLEX a ram reliant solution? I was going to split it half and half, but if one is going to be more reliant on it I want to make sure that VM has enough. I will go over and ask the LimeTechnology forums about the possibility of Infiniband support. I've been watching a bit of Byte My Bits to figure out the NVIDIA transcoding plug in for the PLEX docker and general UNRIAD information, he seems to know what he is doing. Would you recommend watching anyone else on the topic of UNRAID?

Hey all, First I wanted to say thanks for all the help up front, there are a lot of super intelligent people out there and I would love to pick your brains. My goal is to run a VM server that I can run a DCS: World Server, Rust Server, Minecraft Server, have all my Steam games in one place so my wife and I have access to the same library and a PLEX media server for all my movies and TV Shows. I feel for simplicity UNRAID would be best for me to use in this scenario. I have 1 Gig internet service to my home and plan on connecting to the server by 10 Gigabit internally. Here's what I have so far, I have gotten my hand on an Intel R2308GZ4GC 8x 3.5" 6.0Gb/s SAS bay and 3x 2.5" spots internally server with 2 12 Core E5-2697 V2, 8 sticks of 32GB PC3L-1200L 1600MHz DDR3 totaling 256GB of ram, Optical Drive, Intel Dual Port 82599EB 10GbE SFP+ card, Intel Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080 with battery backup, 2x 16x PCIe, 8x PCIe riser cards with 1x 6-pin and 1x 6+2-pin PCIe cables per card part number R2208GZ4GC, NVIDIA P2000 Quadro (for PLEX encoding) and a NVIDIA GTX 970 (out of my old machine), 2 1TB SSDs (one for cache the other for the Dedicated VM) and 4x 4TB Seagate Constellation ES ST4000NM0033 SATA 6.0Gb/s (1 for parity the rest for storage). So here are my question: 1. What would be the best version of Windows to run in my VM to maximize performance for each game server? (I do not plan to run them all at once.) 2. With UNRAID if I planned on adding a Disk Shelf at a later date is that possible with a Mellanox Infiniband Card and still keep the RAID's integrity ? 3. How much resources should got to the PLEX server and the VM server side? (I don't plan on having more then 10 users for PLEX so at most 10x 1080p stream at once) 4. I've seen Linus run a Steam Caching server is it worth it? 5. Is there something better then the NVIDIA P2000 Quadro out there for hardware encoding with PLEX? (I haven't purchased it yet) My every day computer specs: ASUS ROG Rampage IV Black Edition E5-1680 V2 running at 4.5GHZ all core on water 64GB of Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400MHz 2x EVGA 1080 Ti Black Super Clock with EVGA HB SLI Bridge OS Drive 750GB Crucial MX300 SSD DCS: World Drive 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD Storage: 2x 4TB Western Digital 7200rpm HD ASUS XG-C100C 10G Network adapter Wife's Computer Specs: ASUS ROG Rampage IV Fromula E5-1680 V2 running at 4.5GHZ all core on water 32GB of Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133MHz EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid (with gold cooler lol) OS Drive 750GB Crucial MX300 SSD Storage 4TB Western Digital 7200rpm HD ASUS XG-C100C 10G Network adapter The whole house is wired with Cat 6a and I have a 10 gigabit switch with RJ45 ports and SFP+