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Prometheus Nurarihyon
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the build was inspired by the videos below

 "2 Gaming Rigs, 1 Tower - Virtualized Gaming Build"
"Use your Gaming PC's Extra Power as a NAS Ultimate Guide"

 

the aim of the build is to be able to have 2 people gaming | and host a game server | and have a whole lot of NAS Storage and the unRaid OS to run it all

Any help in refining the part selection will be appreciated  at the moment I have a budget of $10,000

Location Australia

what I would like to know is part combability 

 

Part Use

Product

Cost

Qnty

Gamer - GPU

Galax GeForce GTX1080Ti EXOC White 11GB GDDR5X

$999.00

2

Lame-o GPU (unRaid)

Gigabyte GeForce GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 Low-Profile

$219.00

1

Gamer - USB ports (Optinal)

Shintaro 2 Port+1 Header USB 3.0 PCIe Card

$36.00

2

Motherboard

Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 7 LGA2066 ATX

$685.00

1

Memery (Ram)

G.Skill 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 Trident Z RGB 2400MHz

$569.00

2

CPU

Intel Core i7 7820X 3.6GHz 11MB No HSF Retail Box

$769.00

1

Gamer - Sound Card (Optinal)

ASUS Xonar AE 7.1 PCIe Sound Card

$79.00

2

OS disks - Raid 1 - Butter FS

Samsung 960 Pro Series 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD

$419.00

2

NAS Storage

WD Red WD40EFRX 3.5" 4TB 64MB Intellipower NAS HDD

$195.00

5

Gamer – Game Library storage Disk

Samsung 850 Pro Series 2.5" 512GB SSD

$309.00

 

2

Fans for extra Cooling

be quiet! Silent Wings 3 140mm PWM Fan High Speed Edition

$32

4

PSU

 be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1200W Power Supply

$369

1

CUP Cooler

 be quiet! Silent Loop 280mm Liquid CPU Cooler

$179

1

Case

 be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Case Orange

$369

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12 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

for a bit more you can get a threadripper

or ryzen 7 for much cheaper

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would a threadripper build still be able to run "unRaid" and support Gaming?

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2 hours ago, Prometheus Nurarihyon said:

would a threadripper build still be able to run "unRaid" and support Gaming?

yea

it will run better thanks to the crapload of cores (1950x has 32 and 64 threads vs the i7 extreme with 8 and 16)

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so would I be able to use Equivalent AMD version of "Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)" and "Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)" 

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@Prometheus Nurarihyon

 

If you are doing this for the fun of it, ignore this. 

 

It's my opinion that it would be better, and not much more expensive to build three boxes. Two i7-8600K, GTX 1080 Ti gamers and an i5-8400 or i7-8700 no discrete gpu server. One could use a stacking case like the Thermaltake X2 (mATX).

 

13 hours ago, Ethocreeper said:

yea

it will run better thanks to the crapload of cores (1950x has 32 and 64 threads vs the i7 extreme with 8 and 16)

Not a reasonable comparison. The 1950X is almost twice the price. The comparable Threadripper is the 1900X with 8 cores, 17 threads.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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6 minutes ago, brob said:

@Prometheus Nurarihyon

 

If you are doing this for the fun of it, ignore this. 

 

It's my opinion that it would be better, and not much more expensive to build three boxes. Two i7-8600K, GTX 1080 Ti gamers and an i5-8400 or i7-8700 no discrete gpu server. One could use a stacking case like the Thermaltake X2 (mATX).

 

Not a reasonable comparison. The 1950X is almost twice the price. The comparable Threadripper is the 1900X with 8 cores, 17 threads.

 

well my goal is to be able to use it at LAN events|Parties so I don't have to move 3 rigs

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3 hours ago, brob said:

@Prometheus Nurarihyon

Not a reasonable comparison. The 1950X is almost twice the price. The comparable Threadripper is the 1900X with 8 cores, 17 threads.

Sorry my mistake I was signed in on an business account so it's was without vat...

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3 hours ago, Prometheus Nurarihyon said:

@brob

well my goal is to be able to use it at LAN events|Parties so I don't have to move 3 rigs

You can make an R7 system

The 1700 with the Asus prime x370 should be fine

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On 11/16/2017 at 1:22 PM, Prometheus Nurarihyon said:

so would I be able to use Equivalent AMD version of "Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)" and "Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)" 

if anyone can Confirm that this can be done or what I need to look for?

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6 hours ago, Prometheus Nurarihyon said:

if anyone can Confirm that this can be done or what I need to look for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6vbe6w/threadripper_broken_on_linux_for_pci_passthrough/ is pretty discouraging. It seems that gpu passthrough is still problematic.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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@Prometheus Nurarihyon

Just found this thread.  I recommend checking out the Unraid forums for the majority of your Unraid questions.  However, I can verify Ryzen works.  I use it myself, 2 gamers each with a GTX 1080.  We also pass the primary GPU to a user via its romfile, so hopefully you can do this as well and skip the 1050ti.

Just to be clear, Unraid requires at least the release candidate 6.4 rc10 to work with Ryzen.  Several issues existed last year that made gaming unplayable, and rc10 was the last version (that I know of) to have a critical fix for Ryzen.

 

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9 hours ago, thenonsense said:

@Prometheus Nurarihyon

Just found this thread.  I recommend checking out the Unraid forums for the majority of your Unraid questions.  However, I can verify Ryzen works.  I use it myself, 2 gamers each with a GTX 1080.  We also pass the primary GPU to a user via its romfile, so hopefully you can do this as well and skip the 1050ti.

Just to be clear, Unraid requires at least the release candidate 6.4 rc10 to work with Ryzen.  Several issues existed last year that made gaming unplayable, and rc10 was the last version (that I know of) to have a critical fix for Ryzen.

 

Good news.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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A couple tips on your build/config.  I would pass through the hard drives so your Windows OS is installed directly to the hard drive.  It will let you boot from it in the future, say if you feel like using your 1080ti's in SLI.  Dump your SATA SSDs into your cache.  Check your motherboard for the number of USB controllers.  Since it doesn't appear like you're water cooling, you'll need room for your GPUs to breathe.  That means limiting how many PCI->USB cards you can use for USB passthrough (a necessity for convenient hotplugging).  If you have spare USB controllers on the mobo to pass through, that's best, since it requires no extra hardware.  We have USB hubs on our monitors, and the monitors are plugged directly into the mobo.  

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