unraid box cpu choice

[blackhawk2000]

Hi all,

 

looking at building a unRAID  box for multi player gaming on a budget.

(for those that are unfamiliar with unRAID http://linustechtips...ming-build-log/   

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i have a existing quadcore fx 4130 system but it doesnt have enough threads to do this setup

 

so im looking at a pair of  E5520 xeons on  a intel s5520sc with 48gb of ddr 3 1333 ecc memory (so split up: 4cores 8 threads  16gb ram R9 290 gpu for player 1 and 3 cores 6 threads 16bg ram r9 270x for player 2 leaving 1core 2 threads 16bg ram  for the unraid os / nas)

 

i have been looking around @ benchmarks but hard to get a accurate answer on this but do you think there will be a noticeable performance drop going from a fx4130 to the above mentioned setup  in gaming?

 

i know its kind of ambiguous  question as would depend on how multi threaded the individual game title is etc.

 

some bench marks such as the multicore geekbench 3 put them pretty close together but just trying to get some other opinions from people before buying and testing the older rig for myself.

 

(eddited post to make less ambiguous) .

[Nonco]

Whats an unraid box?

[-rascal-]

Whats an unraid box?

 

I had a same impression as you...until I realized he meant "unRAID."

 

 

Hi all,

 

looking at building a unraid box for gaming on a budget.

 

i have a existing quadcore fx 4130 that isnt going to give enough cores to be competitive so i have been looking at a older dual cpu quad core xeon system i can get my hands on cheaply.

 

so im looking at a pair of  E5520 xeons on  a intel s5520sc with 48gb of ddr 3 1333 ecc memory

 

i have been looking around @ benchmarks but hard to get a accurate answer on this but do you think there will be a noticeable performance drop going from a fx4130 to the above mentioned setup  in gaming?

 

i know its kind of ambiguous  question as would depend on how multi threaded the individual game title is etc.

 

some bench marks such as the multicore geekbench 3 put them pretty close together but just trying to get some other opinions from people before buying and testing the older rig for myself.

 

gpu will be a r9 290 and something else for the other vm that will be running.

 

Two Quad-Core Hyper-threaded CPUs? 48GB of RAM?

Is this system going to run game servers, or a system and you ACTUALLY going to game on?

 

If you are using it as a system JUST to play games on, then you are "doing it wrong."

No game is going to use two physical processors, and 48GB of RAM.

This is the extreme case where more DOES NOT mean it is better/faster.

[blackhawk2000]

merged into op to make better sence of what im trying to achieve 

[Electronics Wizardy]

You don't use unraid for gaming, use windows. If you want to run a game in a vm don't its only good for multi user system or network gaming boxes. If you want to put a lot of drives in a pool use windows's storage spaces found in windows home server or windows 8/8.1/10/windows server 2012/2012 r2/ 2016.

[blackhawk2000]

You don't use unraid for gaming, use windows. If you want to run a game in a vm don't its only good for multi user system or network gaming boxes. If you want to put a lot of drives in a pool use windows's storage spaces found in windows home server or windows 8/8.1/10/windows server 2012/2012 r2/ 2016.

there is 2 vms with gpu pass through  running windows 10 within the system feeding out to 2 sets of keyboard / mouse / monitor , the idea is condensing hardware down to 1 box to keep 2 people doing their day to day which includes gaming while also providing a redundant Nas solution. so the system will provide the same level of performance as a bare metal box give or take 1-2% for the extra overheads.

 

i have used unRaid for this in the past the question isn't about is unRAID the best option.. the question thats being asked is about real noticable performance difference between the 2 cpu's in a gaming scenario  being the fx 4130 and the  E5520 xeon there is a moderate disparity in overall clock speed 2x the threads available, in certain games that can leverage the extra threads i assume despite the lower clock i should see a similar level of real world performance, however i dont have the xeons on hand to benchmark and quantify that.

 

i was hopeing that someone might have a similar set of processors kicking around or have some numbers i havent come  across on the internet to properly quantify the real world performance difference.

[runit3]

@blackhawk2000

To answer the question, the E5520's are going to have one hell of a time keeping up with the R9's. 2.53GHz at that generation's IPC is rough going. If you're going to look for comparative benchmarks you'll need to look back at original core i series (probably the i7-820 is the closest in the lineup to the E5520's). Just keep in mind that on turbo at least one of the cores has a full GHz leadout on the Xeon. If you can hunt down some benchmarks with turbo disabled that would be about as close of a comparison as you can get.

 

The closest thing to this that I have direct experience with was my old i7-980X @4.147GHz. It ran nearly every title extremely well paired with a GTX 770, but I mostly played AAA titles when that thing was around (FC3, BF3/4, AC:BF, etc.) It ran like dog shit with unoptimized games (PS2, ARMA 2/3, etc) but really, even my Haswell CPU's sometimes shit the bed on certain places with those games (to a much lesser degree on my 1440p panel now).

[blackhawk2000]

thanks for that runit3 ill have a look @ the 820 benches. 

 

would be nice if there was a universal listing for what cpu's can keep x gfx card fed