7 Gamers, 1 CPU - Ultimate Virtualized Gaming Build Log

[WereCat]

r9 Nano's with G-Sync monitors ohhh linus..

Doesent matter. These are the only 21:9 1440p monitors that are IPS and above 60Hz.

[Agent181]

Im just going to leave this here 

 

taken at 4:28 PM pst 1/3/16

[Agent181]

Umm Linus you could have gotten the Super Flower 2000W PSU. EVGA PSUs are rebranded Super Flower ones.

 

http://www.super-flower.com.tw/products_detail.php?class=2&sn=16&ID=119〈=en

i thought it was only running of 220V and not the 120V from North America so he would need to get a generator for it or something

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Amazing! BTW, what's that keyboard you're using near the end of the video? It looks fu**ing nice!

That would be the Datamancer "The Aviator" Keyboard. Want it? USD $1,000 since they're hand-made and produced at low-volumes.

[KaRLiToS]

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[LabRat]

thanks for spamming the thread with pictures of "your" computer!

[Misanthrope]

Dayum almost a million views on youtube alone under 24 hours, at this rate this might indeed go viral and perhaps even make back as much as the system costed your sponsors.

[unijab]

[KaRLiToS]

thanks for spamming the thread with pictures of "your" computer!

 

sorry

[Darth-Marius]

DAMN, i could buy a SUV for that money!!

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Over 1 million views! Damn this is truly a viral video.

[unijab]

Over 1 million views! Damn this is truly a viral video.

 

I've noticed the 2 gamers,1cpu video has gotten over 10k+ views today also

[limetechjon]

Holy hell, in the video you mentioned that there are a myriad of issues when you built this system, do you by chance kept a diary/log of all the issues and such? I would be interested in the ultimate behind the scenes of building this monster.

 

I actually am working up a blog post for the Lime Technology website as a "behind the scenes" going over the issues we faced.  The number of issues were rather small, but there was one that we had to live with.  It didn't impact system stability when all the VMs were running, but it was annoying enough that I wouldn't necessarily recommend this build for someone to purchase with those GPUs.  With a different set of GPUs, this would have been perfect, but then we'd have to sacrifice how many we could possibly fit in the rig.  Its such a shame because the R9 Nano is a perfect use case for this in a water-cooled setup, if only it reset correctly when its attached to a VM that gets shut down.

[limetechjon]

I doubt it's the hypervisor doing that over a service (dhcpd, something else?) doing so...

 unRAID allows you to choose a host-managed bridge (we call this a public bridge) or an internal NAT'd bridge.  The first bridge gives each VM an IP off the router, but VM to VM and VM to host traffic communicates through the bridge, never needing to actually hit the router.  For example, I could have a VM LAN party with a stock setup that utilizes NAT'd bridge.  There is no need to manually manage all that.  We do not yet support VLAN tagging for those who are wondering, but for most home-user setups, it's not necessary.

[Samfisher]

So, where's the part with the 1 CPU? Lol.

[Guest]

You keep making me want to build an unraid system!

Just use a normal Linux Distro, like Open Suse or Ubuntu. 

[Guest]

Unraid.

Go check out their "2 Gamers 1 CPU" video for more details.

KVM* 

[Commander_Z]

Ever dreamed of what you could do with a $30,000 computer? Turns out the answer is "a lot"

 

Vessel link: tbd

YouTube: 

 

 

Parts List

 

Kingston 32GB DDR4 ECC RAM (x8)

Amazon: http://geni.us/3N2B

 

Kingston KC400 1TB Business SSD (x8)

Amazon: http://geni.us/3c6w

 

Lime Technology unRAID Server Pro Software

Manufacturer Link: http://lime-technology.com/

 

Caselabs Mercury S8

Amazon: n/a

Manufacturer Direct: http://bit.ly/1P8UvW3

 

Acer Predator X34 21:9 Gaming Monitor (x7)

Amazon: http://geni.us/32xr

 

Intel Xeon E5 2697 V3 (x2)

Amazon: http://geni.us/1nya

 

ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS

Amazon: http://geni.us/wov

 

AMD R9 Nano (x7)

Amazon: http://geni.us/Ubr

 

EVGA T2 1600W

Amazon: http://geni.us/3ad1

 

Cablemod Custom Cables for PSU

Manufacturer Link: http://bit.ly/1NYnrCz

 

Water Cooling Parts

CPU blocks - EK Supremacy Evo

Radiators - EK Coolstream XE 360

GPU Blocks - EK R9 Nano

GPU Connector - Custom 7-way version of FC Terminal

Pump/Reservoir - EK Xres 140

Fittings - EK Advanced Compression Fittings

Tubing - Primochill Primoflex Black/Orange

 

 

7 gamers 2 CPU

[EricX2]

Just use a normal Linux Distro, like Open Suse or Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is what I'm using, how does that give me the features you see here?

[aw_]

Ubuntu is what I'm using, how does that give me the features you see here?

 

The primary feature we see here is GPU assignment with KVM and VFIO, which is accessible on any Linux distribution.  unRAID simplifies some things with their interface and carries some patches that you might otherwise need to apply yourself, but there's nothing exclusive to unRAID to make this work.  See http://vfio.blogspot.com/ for some guides and articles.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Bro! That is just sweet!  I personally would love to see a Channel Super Fun video of Linus Media Group employees having a tournament match with that PC.

[aselwyn1]

wow i really want to get a crazy unraid build done soon

[aw_]

Hmm, kinda looks like this could have been done with better performance, power, and support of the graphics card vendor with Quadro M4000.  The stock cooler would even work...

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Hmm, kinda looks like this could have been done with better performance, power, and support of the graphics card vendor with Quadro M4000.  The stock cooler would even work...

Dude the M4000 is a workstation GPU. Even though it can theoretically game, it doesn't in practice as well as its gaming equivalent. So Linus handed off the gaming performance to the R9 Nano for sure.

[aw_]

Dude the M4000 is a workstation GPU. Even though it can theoretically game, it doesn't in practice as well as its gaming equivalent. So Linus handed off the gaming performance to the R9 Nano for sure.

 

3DMark is down for me right now, but when it comes back compare the M4000 to the R9 Nano, I checked before posting and found reports of 16xxx for the M4000 vs 14xxx for the R9 Nano in Firestrike for non-SLI/Crossfire configs.  Quadro cards are not clocked as high as GeForce, but it's pretty much the same hardware, dude.