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Ok, thanks for the clarification. Sortof. I was really under the impression that PCIE 4.0 was a hard requirement for DirectStorage (thanks igor, that is what I actualy meant, I just confused techs). And i see here that maybe it will be, maybe not. Hope it will not

I have a question on the topic. I searched for the answer in various places, but could not find any conclusive info. What is really required for RTX IO? I will ask with an example: I am building rig for my friend. He gave me a budget. I wanted to go with 3070 graphics, amd 5600x cpu and x570 MB. This ended up being a little bit over budget, so I though of going with B550 MB instead. And here is my question - will RTX IO work? B550 uses PCIE 3.0 for chipset lanes, but You have PCIE 4.0 from CPU. Since this tech was designed to bypass CPU, I assume it uses chipset lanes exclusively? And then, i think it might require x570 chipset? I guess I just want to know if I can shave some of the price there, or should look elsewhere.

Ok, guys, I read You, it's most likely not worth it in terms of performance per $. Buuuuuut... I'm still a geek and still curious So, for now, I decided to clean one of my older drives and start a test unraid system on that. Then I will attach all my resources to VM and compare scores with regular, non-virtualized system. I wonder what experienced drop of performance will be. For future - I will still fiddle with the idea, but probably will go with 2 rigs after all. Time to pick up what gear will I use is still there. I'm curious how well AMD will perform against Intel next year. I will do a sanity check here, before I buy anything though.

Sadly, in our apartment we don't really have any good place to dump one or 2 rigs to separate ourselves from heat. I would really love that, but still, it's something we can't do. I saw Linus's (Linus'es? Linuses? how do You even spell this correctly?) video about rig in another room and thought it was awesome idea... If I had a place like that But, I might explore this option a little bit, maybe we might rearrange some things and make place ? I will not lie, part of this idea is that I wanted to try it, since I thought it was interesting idea. Unless it comes with too big of disadvantage in terms of performance per $ Worst case scenario, after gathering all my information, I might drop the subject and go with plain, boring 2 rigs.

First things first - hello! I've been only a watcher of LTT channel for some time but the time has come for me to search for some advices from the community. Ok, backstory first. Together, with my wife, we're very much gamers. She is even more than I am. We have one room, quite small in which we have dedicated part for our rigs. This consists of 2 not the biggest desks, 2 medium towers, 2 27" displays. And alot of heat, I mean, it's next to unbearable sometimes. Since my rig is alraedy 5 years old (and my wife is talking about changes too), I was thinking of a complete change. I would change 2 desks into one long tabletop. And, most importantly, I was thinking of getting rid of our 2 rigs in favour of one. I saw a video on LTT (from 2015) on building 2 virtual gaming systems on one physical machine, strong multi-core HT CPU, 2 GPUs, with help of unraid. Since I am planning any changes for next year, I still have some time to put all things together, so first I am doing my intel. First of all - I am looking for any insight - is it worth it? Is there a performance drop/rise compared for 2 separate builds for similar price? Is there any significant additional input lag (we both play FPS games too)? Second, I'm interested if a feature I would be looking for is possible... I know I can assign one GPU to one VM and another to second VM... but is it possible to do it in real-time? I mean, If only one VM is active, can it utilize power of both GPUs and switch to single one when the second VM is powered up? Similar thing with CPU cores - can one machine use all of them and share half only when another machine is powered up? Basically, is there option for dynamic resources allocation? I will be digging through unraid knowledge base and manuals soon, so probably some of my questions I will answer myself, but help for anybody with experience int he matter is always welcome Anyway, for hardware, We will most likely go for double 2080rtx super or ti (well, next year's top of the line model). But what about CPU? Is there a sweet spot for number of cores and threads? Haven't really done proper research for years and don't know at which point bottle neck in CPU starts to show up. Disks are totally TBD and MB will be determined by CPU. Important thing is case and cooling. I like to dream that I am not lazy and would go for custom-built desk case with liquid cooling... but I am lazy, so I will not Instead, I am thinking nice looking tower. But what about cooling? Would air be sufficient? What about liquid? I know that ultimately the heat will be removed right into our room anyway, so I guess it's not worth the hassle? I'm not really super crazy about looks and noise, we both play in headphones anyway. My budget is not unlimited, but it probably will go max to 4000-5000$ US, so I guess it should be enough. (I live in Poland though, so prices may vary here from US). So that's it. Not a lot of details yet, as I said - beginning of the road, that will end probably summer 2020. Thanks for any advice in that regard.