High Efficient NAS Build

[TechnikTim]

Budget (including currency): I don´t care. Since I don't need High-end hardware, it's probably not that expensive anyway.

Country: Germany/Deutschland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 2-3xVMs, NAS/Software RAID (via Open Media Vault I think)

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

I'm only looking for CPU and motherboard. I already have everything else:

Case: Supermicro SC825

PSU: 2x Redundant 500W PWS-501P-1R

PDB: PDB-PT825-S8824 (1x 24pin, 1x 4Pin CPU, 2x 8Pin GPU or CPU)

I think the rest is irrelevant.

 

I'm looking for a CPU with 6-8 cores for the VMs. However, the CPU should draw little power when it is idle. Also, OC would be nice so I can undervolt a bit.(if that makes sense). Maybe something like i5 12400T or i7 12700T?

I don't really care about the motherboard. I only need 1x USB and if possible many SATA connectors. Then I don't have to buy such big SATA PCIe cards.

NVMe slots for Cache and automatic start-up after a power failure would also be really cool, but it's not a must have.

 

I'm new here, if you need more info or something like that, let me know. Actually, I know quite a bit about hardware, but I've never really dealt with this low-power efficient hardware.

[tkitch]

I'd suggest an i7 12700 over other options.

 

For the simple reason that if it's mostly idling?  The E-Cores will do the bulk of the work without the higher-power P-Cores even powering up.

 

The T CPUs are seriously hamstrung on performance over the mainstream chips.  If you're super super super worried about power?  Get the T chip, otherwise just get the non-K version, and it'll have the horsepower to run more stuff when you need it.  (But most of the time it'll do nothing.) 

[TechnikTim]

18 minutes ago, tkitch said:

For the simple reason that if it's mostly idling?  The E-Cores will do the bulk of the work without the higher-power P-Cores even powering up.

I didn't think of that at all...

Thanks