unRAID question/issue

[CoryShepherd]

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! 

[Billy_Mays]

Don't double post it will get you in trouble 

[CoryShepherd]

I know, i was just going to delete the first one, but i dont see how?

[Billy_Mays]

11 minutes ago, CoryShepherd said:

I know, i was just going to delete the first one, but i dont see how?

You can't you have to report it and quote people so they know that you've answered them

[CoryShepherd]

22 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

You can't you have to report it and quote people so they know that you've answered them

I have reported, and thats my bad, like previously mentioned, this is a first time posting on forum so i apologise for not being very helpful.

 

But hopefully someone will be able to help with my issue

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, CoryShepherd said:

I have reported, and thats my bad, like previously mentioned, this is a first time posting on forum so i apologise for not being very helpful.

 

But hopefully someone will be able to help with my issue

Yeah it's fine I know what it was like for my first post too

[Jarsky]

When the 7900X and board is more than double the price - why didnt you just go 2 ryzen/7700k systems? 

 

Many bios do allow you to select which GPU you're booting with, if yours does you can just select your base card in there. 

[CoryShepherd]

On 29/07/2017 at 11:05 PM, Jarsky said:

When the 7900X and board is more than double the price - why didnt you just go 2 ryzen/7700k systems? 

 

Many bios do allow you to select which GPU you're booting with, if yours does you can just select your base card in there. 

While you make a great point, and i did consider it, it mainly came down to me just really wanting to have just the one tower with virtualization (small space).

 

But thats a helpful point, any idea what it may be listed under? Thankyou.