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Hi guys, I wanna build a new PC soon but me and my brother wanna play CO-OP some not AAA title games, like CS:GO, so we don't need like 1080Ti. My question is if so GTX 1060 is can hold up these games really well like 200 fps, can I use it to build 2 gamers 1 Tower? Like 200 divided by 2 is 100 and considering the drop caused by this non efficient setup, say it 60 fps. Would it be possible? Like how efficient will be the system? I'll use a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU so I don't think we will have a bottleneck here. A quick help will be appreciated And sorry for my so so english.

I'm trying to create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox, but as you can see in the screenshots, I am unable to add more processors to my VM, as the processors slider is grayed out. For some background, I've worked with VMware ESXi quite a bit in the past, but I'm new to VirtualBox. Does anyone have any experience with this and could give me some advice? My PC is running Windows 8.1 64-bit with an FX-6300 and 8GB of RAM. Thanks a lot.

I'm wondering what most people here use for GPU passthrough. I have an old Dell Precision workstation that I'm trying to turn into a gaming box/home lab for Linux & Windows learning. I've tried VMWare ESXi and Proxmox KVM (based on Debian Linux) and got GPU passthrough working with both. Neither is perfect, but I'm leaning towards ESXi at the moment because I'm having so much trouble with audio on KVM. On KVM, I've got audio to the point that game audio plays OK, but Youtube has skipping and distortion problems when there's any background activity (downloads, disk transfers, etc.) Setting up GPU passthrough on KVM was also a good bit more painful than ESXi was. That's not to say that ESXi doesn't have problems. I couldn't get USB hotplug working in my Windows VM, so I had to resort to task scheduler to force a USB scan every minute. I also had to find a super-secret config file parameter to prevent "Code 43" errors with my GeForce GPU. But audio work great, even when there's a lot of background activity. Has anyone here had better experiences with their hypervisor of choice? Does Linus' favorite platform, Unraid, make it any easier to do passthrough?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for ideas/help with a somewhat unusual project. My aunt has an embroidery business and has pretty old machines. The software that runs them can only be installed on an OS as modern as XP and also requires USB security keys to operate. Her XP machine is getting to be on its last legs so I get the "privilege" of setting up a new system for her. So far fairly straightforward, Linux Mint 18.1 running a virtual machine of Windows 2K Professional with VMWare. The problem started when I found that the software, even when using the USB security key that it shipped with, also is looking for another security key that happens to plug into the DB25 parallel connector on the XP machine... I was hoping to recycle pc parts that I already own to build this system but nothing I have has a parallel port on it. Does anyone know or have experience using a parallel security key with one of those USB to parallel adaptor cables or possibly a better solution? Thanks for any ideas Link to product page of key if any help: [Link removed] Picture of key attached

Hey I was considering to buy this: Sharkoon VS4-S Pentium G4400 ASRock B150M Pro4S 4GB Crucial cheap memory DDR4-2133 128GB Intenso Top 3 2x 3GB Gigabyte GTX 1060 Windforce OC Corsair VS650 Now the thing is, I still live with my parents and they are planning on buying a new computer to run Wilcom Embroidery Studio. It's now running on an old i3 laptop with 2gb ram and a GT210M. It crashes very often in case you wanted to know how poorly it would run. I don't think it would be an issue but it would be possible to run a VM to mine and other uses. But I think the NAS would and could be an issue. Would I just need to do the same as in this video from Linus? Assigning 4 threads to the normal workload, 2 to the NAS and 2 to VM for mining? Since my parents still want something clean, would I need to go for a motherboard with 3 PCIE 3.0 x16 ports (since risers look a bit weird in a very nice room, no offense) Why 3 cards now? Because I might be able to afford 3 of them. And yes I'm aware that near October I'll need to upgrade the gpu's for ETH mining. I'm currently looking at the following for the current situation: NZXT S340 i7-7700k MSI Z270 SLI 16GB HyperX Fury White (1st&3rd slot) 8GB HyperX Fury Black, yes I typed black (2nd&4th) 120GB SanDisk Plus x2 (1 for os for main part, 2nd one for mining?) WD40EFRX 2x (NAS) WD10EZRZ (for main part) Gigabyte GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB 3x Be Quiet! Straight Power 10 CM 700w 8gb ram for NAS 8gb ram for mining 2x4gb ram for Wilcom studio The specs required to run Wilcom Embroidery Studio can be seen below Thanks in advance guys, really appreciate it. PS: would the Ryzen 7 1700 be better for this kind of stuff?

When Ryzen launched it was pretty dank but from what I have read, if you were trying to use it for any sort of virtualization than you were asking for trouble. Recently I heard about some major updates being made to the platform and was wondering if these updates had fixed the virtualization problems it had on release. Also, do you guys think that Thread-Ripper will be any better for this sort of thing when it drops?

Hello everyone! This is my first post on the LTT forum so i apologise if i have posted in wrong section or im just generally doing things wrong.. Moving on! I have recently baught a x299 board with a 7900x with the intentions of unRAID with 2 windows 10 OS's, no need for a nas or anything as i have a dedicated pc for that which runs my plex ect. My problem being that i plan to use 2 GTX 1070s but looking at the board, i wont be able to fit them while needing to have a third GPU in top PCIE slot for the unraid? at first i was hoping to just use like a PCIE extender to hide the 3rd/top gpu away elsewhere, similar to what the miners are doing with the risers.. but i seem to fall short on how it could possibly work and after looking around it seems most of the x299 boards are the same, unless anyone knows how to switch it around so that unraid actually grabs whats plugged into the bottom PCIE slot? that would be ideal.. I do also plan to watercool both cards when i can get around to buying the blocks and a second rad, incase that makes a difference! Thank you in advance, anyones help is greatly appreciated!

Hello fellow enthusiasts, I'm a first time poster and very new to the whole server side of things, so please forgive me if I sound naive or ask possibly stupid questions (and english isn't my first language...) So, here's the deal: I currently have a small mini ITX FreeNAS build which I use mostly for network shares and Resilio Sync. It consists of an ASRock J3710-ITX mainboard with 8GB RAM and 2x 2TB WD Reds which effectively offers 2TB of storage because ZFS. It served me somewhat well over the past year or so but ever since I learned about unRAID and what you can do with it I started wondering if it'd make sense to upgrade to something bigger and more powerful. The things I thought of using an unRAID server for are the following: NAS (obviously) with some fail-save in the form of parity disks Virtualization for a Linux machine for maybe hosting a webserver, Resilio and just generally tinkering around a Windows machine (probably Windows Server 2012 R2) which I need for my work and which I'm currently using on my main PC with VMware possibly another small Windows Server machine for Active Directory (not sure if unRAID itself supports that, hence a VM) possibly sometime in the future a Windows 10 machine for use as a streaming machine (I know I'll need a capture card for that) My idea for the VMs would be to RDP/SSH/VNC/whatever into them instead of hooking up displays directly to them because I still want to use my main machine for working on, but have work and gaming/other stuff more physically separated from each other, if that makes any sense. Unfortunately I'm on a bit of a tight budget so I'd like to save as much money as possible while still getting a system where I won't have to replace parts in like 3 months or so. So I figure and can at least re-use the WD Reds and USB thumb drives to boot unRAID off of, here's the rest of the build I came up with so far: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/2k8dhq I know the RAM isn't ECC but considering how damn expensive RAM is these days I don't see how I could afford a build like this without having to save up until next year. I currently have 4x8GB DDR4 in my main rig from which I could spare 2 sticks for the server since I really only got this much RAM because I had to run the VMs + other stuff in the background, so I'd just have to get another set of 2x8GB. I went with a Ryzen 5 1600 because it currently looks like the best bang/buck and I figure 12 threads should be enough for the aforementioned purposes. I also know that with 2 HDDs I won't get really good performance for now, and I do plan to add more drives later on, but right now I want to get at least the basic framework set up for as cheap as possible. So now my question would be: Does this build even make sense in terms of what I want to use it for? Or am I going too big/small? Any advice and help would be appreciated

So I'm planning out the eventual deployment of an all-in-one home server that will (ideally) handle both virtualization and ZFS-based file-storage in one box. The options I have considered so far are Windows Server 2016 (HyperV & FreeNAS VM for file storage), Proxmox VE (KVM, LXC containers and native ZFS w/ additional Samba sharing), or FreeNAS 11 (native ZFS and excellent file sharing w/ bhyve hypervisor as of FN 11). I have a license for Server 2016 already, and the other two options are free and open-source, so the cost barrier isn't a big deal. To me, Freenas has the best storage management interface, but (currently) the worst virtualization management interface (GUI is weak, command-line is likely better but more of a hassle); Proxmox has great native virtualization and container support but requires some complicated work to setup SMB sharing; and Windows Server 2016 is (AFAIK) more resource intensive as a host, but will allow me to run many Server 2016 VMs, and I'm much more familiar with HyperV. Additionally, I mostly plan on running Linux VMs/containers, seeing as they are open-source and I find them fun to learn! If anybody has some experience or perspective here, I would greatly appreciate your input!

So 4k streaming on netflix on a computer currently requires kaby lake. My rig is not kaby lake, but is virtualized. Can it be fooled by telling the virtual environment it has kaby lake even though it doesn't? Would that allow 4k streaming or would it break the emulator because it's trying to expose non-existent cpu features?

Hi, I am new to the forums, but need some reconmendations for a smal server I'm planning to build early next year. My goal is to eliminate the need for a hoster and host a web server, Mail server, a simple PBX system (3cx), small storage accessed by 4-5 people (rarely at once) and also hopefully a teamspeak and Arma server (though these are not important in any way ). Mail and a PBX can be on the same virtual machine but the web server needs to be independant and so does the storage one. Here's the catch though, I have a budget of $500 AUD and need this to take a minimal amount of space. Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi, Everyone I was looking into buying or building 2 Virtualization machine for couponing with old parts. I wanted to spend no more than 300$ in one machine. I figure if I setup a email server and bots to make it more productive. So I know that each coupon requires the person to register with them. That's where a email server comes in. I was wondering if it's possible to use the bots to make random email address and handle the sign up process. I know that the site's going to require me to prove. I am not a bot. I got away around that if this might work. So Is it possible to make the bots text me a pic of the bot test section of the page. Then I tell it what to say by texting back a answer? Note the reason, I am looking into this is because. I am really into saving money. The server's would pay for themselves after about 1 year. from how much I would've saved. I love to buy bulk. So for example: At kroger they had Annie's mac and cheese for sale 0.88$ originally 1.50$ . Now with the saving coupon of 0.50$ limit 3 a computer.. it would come up as 0.38$. If I get 100 boxes. I in return save 155$. The virtual servers would download and handle almost everything from the servers. Can this be done????

Hi all What is your recommended specs For the Title Above and is this okie? -17 inch - I7 6700HQ -Gtx 1060 6gb -16gb ddr4 ram are these fine ? and i will use this for a long time and for future purposes And Iam still currently Studying I.T Having a course involves those subjects Thanks ^^ and I don't have space for desktop build and i need it on the go ^^

Here is the problem: My company has two old computers running on Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and they have very vital Honeywell industrial control system installed. Recently, the two computers became a little unstable. I want to migrate the two old computers into VirtualBox which runs on a new server. Any ideas ?

So I want to build a NAS that will also do plex transcoding on the FreeNAS side, and then also run a Windows 10 gaming rig. So what is the easiest way to do this while losing as little power as possible? I will be using a 6850k and most likely a fury, but will I need a second GPU for the FreeNAS side? If I have to split up the cores, then I would give 2 to plex and 4 to windows, but is it possible to dynamically scale? Thank you for your help.

Hi, everyone I really enjoyed 3 OS on one PC and I want something similar of my own. I want to run Linux and Windows on one machine (I don't have anything right now, just a laptop that I am using to write this post) and I was wondering if my idea is feasible and if so what parts I should be looking for. The purpose of this system is to run Linux 24/7 and it will be running a small program of mine that will periodically check on a website and download updated contents of it (not multimedia stuff just some text data). Also I want to run windows but perhaps not 24/7 and perhaps just for gaming. Since the web scrapping stuff will not be a heavy load (there will be some string parsing but files will be within megabytes), I want to allocate as few CPU cores as possible (like just one if that is possible). However, I might need to export that data to Windows for heavy processing from time to time. The reason I am not considering the even split of the CPU is because, when I process the data I got from the Linux, it will be a medium load, if not heavy, and this will not happen frequently. NAS will be great but I am not sure if there is a way to use it efficiently in a situation where I have no control over IP addresses (I can try to get my own router and assign private address to it, but I not sure if this violates the regulation of the place I will be deploying the system. Also even it is allowed, I won't be able to access it remotely). I am pretty new to things like this, so correct me if I am misunderstanding anything and any kind of related advice will be helpful. Thanks.

So I know there are some limitations with load detection and such with vms, but I had it working properly before, and now after a reinstall of the host os my vms are acting strange. Basically when I put a load on a single core in the vm (which has it's cores pinned to real cores), instead of that physical core ramping up in the host os, ALL the cores pinned to the vm ramp up together. That wouldn't be so much of an issue except that it costs me .4ghz. I have a full 8 core cpu (hyperthreading disabled) passed through to this vm. With only one core under load it should go to 3.3ghz, but under full 8 core load it only goes to 2.9.

Intended use for the system Programming Running multiple virtual machines at once (Simulating networking environments, attacks..) Gaming 1080p only Overwatch, Dota2, CS:GO, which I want to run on 60fps+ after the upgrade. The system should be able to run games like GTA5 & BF1 on settings where the game looks "good". What I mean with "good" is that I do not need ultra high settings, but I do not want the games to look crap. Just settings that allow me to enjoy "newer" games. (Storage) I am currently running close to maximum capacity - currently sitting at around 3TB, my HDDs combined hold 3.3TB max. The problem is that all of those drives are at least 3-4 years old, and I really want to replace all of those, and while I am at it, increase my capacity. I would start at 4TB of new storage, and increase to 8TB as I get additional money to do so. I originally had one more drive which failed on me so I lost about 500gb of data, which I want to avoid happening again. I also definitely want to switch to an SSD for the OS(es). I am running Linux as my daily driver, and switch to windows to play mainly Overwatch and other games that are not working properly with wine/do not have a native linux port. Here lies the concern I have about hardware choices - In the long run, I want to setup a VM with GPU-Passthrough instead of dualbooting, so components (mainly GPU,CPU,Mainboard) that support this kind of virtualization are important for me. Link to what I am planning to do: https://bufferoverflow.io/gpu-passthrough/ Budget I was thinking 800-1000€ in total. Thats slightly more than what I paid for my current setup when I built it, including the case tho which I am planning to use for the new build aswell, so there is a bit more for "good" hardware. I am living in germany, so I will most certainly get the parts through german retailers/amazon. However, I wont upgrade "in one go" since that is quite a big chunk of money for me (poor student). I was thinking GPU+HDDs+stuff that I can afford additionally at first, remaining parts + setting up the VM for gaming in the second run. Current Setup CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor with Stock Cooler GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD5770 512MB PSU: SeaSonic S12II 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory 2 x 4GB Nanya for AMD 1600Mhz (Thats what their stickers say, got those used, cheap from a friend) Mainboard: Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P This is was I was thinking of to upgrade to GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 1060 Dual-GTX1060-O6G Gaming (PCIe 3.0, 6GB GDDR5 Speicher, HDMI, DVI, Displayport) - 299,99€ on Amazon CPU: i7-6700K 4GHZ ~ 350€ Mainboard: ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Ranger ~ 180-200€ Storage: I was thinking about 2x Western Digital WD20EZRX 2TB for ~85€ each SSD: SanDisk SDSSDA-120G-G26 120 GB for ~43€. Now - is this stuff viable, or is it complete nonsense? Is it worth for the i7 in terms of "futureproofness" and for the extra bits of performance on CPU intensive tasks over the i5? Is my choice for storage reasonable? I chose the WD drives over e.g. Seagate drives because the one that failed me was a Seagate one. I am not going to switch back to Windows as main os. Thanks in advance this thread on /r/buildapc

So up until now, I've just used laptops, but I finally decided to build a pc. I just recently graduated college and got a decent job, so I have some money to work with, but I also have student loans to pay off and a wedding coming up, so I needed to keep it reasonable. I really enjoy virtualization and I've wanted a fully virtualized system for a while now for several reasons, on top of that I found out about the $75 E5-2670 cpus, and I had my starting point. This build will be a dual headed gaming rig for myself and fiance, a nas, and a development pipeline server for my private projects. I managed to get 2 E5-2670's for $68 each after shipping, and an Intel s2600gz motherboard for $99. Got the original water coolers from the motherboard and 2 riser cards for about another $100, and 2 750 Watt redundant psus for $15 each. Finally I found a steal on 4Gb ddr3 ecc ram at $3.50 a stick, and grabbed 8 of those for now (the board has 24 slots, so I can triple my ram to 96Gb without needing more ram per stick. All of this was used on Ebay. Of course, the oddly shaped (and enormous) motherboard and it's 2 power supplies aren't going to fit in a normal case, so I went down to the local lowes and homedepot, and bought an 8'x4.5"x.5" board which I had cut into 4 2" long segments, a 2'x2' sheet of birch plywood, and a ton of screws, bolts, washers, and angle brackets. I also grabbed a 2'x2' sheet of acrylic later and ordered some glass standoffs on ebay for about $1.25 each. Out of this I made a box and mounted everything inside. I cut holes for the two radiators, but I don't have a lot of tools to work with, so I just made two round holes for each one, roughly corresponding to where the fans will be on the inside. I replaced the screaming 40mm server fans in the psus with 40mm noctuas, got 2 120mm noctuas for intake fans, and 2 80mm noctuas for the radiators. I'll need 2 more later, but for now this is what I've got. I managed to squeeze in an evga 1070 sc (literally and financially) along with a usb 3.0 pcie card. I'll get a second gpu, likely a gigabyte mini 1070, for my fiance probably at the beginning of next year. I already had 2 terabyte harddrives (the second one hasn't been mounted yet, so it's not pictured) and a 512 gb ssd. The screws holding the motherboard are countersunk on the back of the plywood and screw into t-nuts on the motherboard side, then there's a nut and washer as standoffs, and another washer and nut on top to hold in the board. Also pictured is the template I drew for the fan holes in the acrylic. I was really scared of cracking it, but it actually went super smoothly. Four small holes for mounting, and six large holes around the fan blade area for air flow. Due to where the system is in the house, there's not a good way to get ethernet to it, so I actually stuffed in a router that bridges to the main router across the house. That also allows me to plug in all four nics on the motherboard. I'm passing through 3 of them to different vm's, allowing them to easily have their own mac addresses and dedicated internet lines. I haven't finished optimizing everything for my windows 10 gaming vm, but it does have the 1070 passed in to it and games just fine so far. I'll put up some benchmarks once everything is set up properly. Software setup right now: host ubuntu mate system with kvm setup centos vm for development work windows 10 pro with 1070 passed through I think I've spent about $900 on this build so far. With the second gpu installed, it'll be about $1300 for effectively 2 gaming rigs and a server. Not too bad for my first build I think

Hey all. What would it take run 24/7 virtualization while VR gaming without dropping performance? I’m looking to run Windows as my host os just for VR gaming and then run a linux box guest as my daily driver and maybe sandbox environment as well? What’s the best way to tackle this? ESXI, I only want one set of monitors and keyboard and mouse. This Option is out then. VMware Workstation, Is guest os multiple monitor support actually working as if it was the host OS? If not, should buy a low end graphic cards just to pass it through? Would that even do anything? Host: Windows 10: VR Gaming Guest 1: Linux box: Daily Driver Guest 2: Windows? Linux? Sandbox/Whatever Hardware: [Which CPU will be able to handle this?] -CPU: 3900x 12/24 @3.8/4.6 Is this overkill? It looks sexy though. Host: 6Cores 12 Threads Guest 1: 4Cores 8Threads Guest 2: 2Cores 4Threads -CPU: 9700K 8/8 @3.6/4.9 Why not just get a 3900x instead? Is 8 threads even enough? Host: 4Cores 4Threads Guest 1: 3Cores 2Threads Guest 2: 1Cores 2Threads -CPU: 3700x 8/16 @3.6/4.4 Is this suitable?
Host: 4Cores 8Threads Guest 1: 2Cores 6Threads Guest 2: 2Cores 2Threads -Ram: G.Skill Tridient 32GB Host: 20GB Guest 1: 8GB Guest 2: 4GB GPU: Given to Host GPU2: Do I even need a low GPU for the guest OS? HDD: Real world performance won’t be noticeable with SSDs getting pass through the guest OS, right? One SSD for all guest OSes is enough? Monitor Setup: 4 to 5 monitors What do you think about the hardware I have picked out? What needs to be changed out and with what? What about CPUs? Which one will enough power? GPUs? I will definitely overclock my build as well. Parts will need play along with each other nicely.

Hey, I was wondering if I could get some advice and maybe a how-to, on setting up a mac os virtualization on my windows machine and how easy it would to easily maintain it, as in getting some sort of hassle-free update system so that I always have the latest mac os version, Also I have an 8700k and I'm not sure if I fully understand how overclocking would or could work, I can get it to around 5G but I have a 360 rad on the way so it should be stable.

I don't know what to do. I enabled Intel vt in the BIOS but still shows up with this error. Can somebody help me figure this out? Thanks Cpu is i7-7700

I'm wanting to retire my aging raspbian web server and make room to spin up and learn to administrate LXD VMs while eventually running a NAS and dev server along with maybe having a selection of various OSs running for tinkering/experimenting/testing. Since the ryzen CPUs are going to be normal consumer chips I don't know what to be expecting from them.

I have a few questions if anyone is willing to answer. i need a PC or a Workstation maybe, that can be used by four separate users using their own peripherals, on four monitors mostly it will be used for a kitchen designing software currently, i3 and gtx 1050 do the job, with some minor problems can you suggest what is needed for this, in general, and some option for on-site backup, preferably to a some lan attached server software used does in fact support virtualization so harware part is where i'n not as experienced, at least with pro gear In normal PC terms i'm an advanced user, no problems there, even some networking is not a problem thanks people

My desktop has a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and since my Intel GPU is not being used at all, is it possible to use my iGPU for virtualization? I'm planning on setting up a Windows 10 VM using QEMU (or using my already-setup Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox).