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I am considering building a PC but not too sure what route to go.

Budget of $6000 I'm thinking of building a high core count machine running unraid to run free nas / windows / ubuntu server to all run as a gaming rig, nas, plex server.

 

Would unraid be decent enough to do this from one rig or maybe not worth the effort?

I know its very possible to run all of this out of one windows install and for the NAS just set up a raid SBM share....

 

Ideas? I'm thinking a threadripper build, over kill but expandability options for sure.

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Why not build 2 PCs? It seems like it would make more sense.

 

1 for storage/nas.

1 for gaming/productivity stuff.

Want to know which mobo to get?

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Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

chEcK iNsidE sPoilEr fOr a tREat!

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Just now, bob51zhang said:

Why not build 2 PCs? It seems like it would make more sense.

 

1 for storage/nas.

1 for gaming/productivity stuff.

Too easy... I wanted to make a project out of it.

Space as well...

 

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3 minutes ago, Realinity said:

Too easy... I wanted to make a project out of it.

Space as well...

 

Phanteks has a pretty cool case that can house two systems: http://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-MiniXL-DS.html    It's pretty big but still not as big as two mid towers.

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GPU pass through tends to be problematic with Threadripper cpu. I believe it could be considered broken for Nvidia gpu. X299 would be a better choice. Although I believe going with two separate systems would ultimately be much more reliable and problem free. Would also provide better performance all around.

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