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I really enjoyed the experience. I had no prior knowledge of gnu linux based systems and the simplicity of the gui and the quality how-too videos that can be found on youtube made all the setup pretty easy.

Have you checked out unRaid? I have installed it on my old pc hardware from ~2008 and use it for Plex and as a NAS mostly. The unRaid OS can run on some really limited hardware.

I run unraid headless, I only connect to it through the web ui, so that isn't real problem for me. Have you had bad experiences with unraid VM's?

You can still find some CoolerMaster HAF series cases online, those had great airflow. The HAF XM can give you up to 463mm for your GPU.

Hi everyone, I have been running a unraid setup on my old computer, mostly as a media server but also to host minecraft. While it runs generally well, the hardware sometimes chokes with big movie files and cannot be upgraded more (Q8200+4gb RAM.) I am thinking about installing unraid on my gaming setup and use a VM for my day-today Win10 use. I am not sure though if my setup is powerful enough to split between unraid and the VM. I'd want to still have everything running smoothly when gaming and see an improvement with Plex streaming. I am mostly worried about my amount of RAM and my number of cores once split. Please let me know what you think, here is my current setup: Asrock Z270 Pro4 7700K not OC'ed yet 16GB ram (2x8gb) 1060 6gb If this is possible I will probably setup the old pc to run pfsense. Thanks for your input!