Planning some VM gaming

[audiocycle]

Hi everyone,

 

I have been running a unraid setup on my old computer, mostly as a media server but also to host minecraft. While it runs generally well, the hardware sometimes chokes with big movie files and cannot be upgraded more (Q8200+4gb RAM.)

 

I am thinking about installing unraid on my gaming setup and use a VM for my day-today Win10 use. I am not sure though if my setup is powerful enough to split between unraid and the VM. I'd want to still have everything running smoothly when gaming and see an improvement with Plex streaming. I am mostly worried about my amount of RAM and my number of cores once split. Please let me know what you think, here is my current setup:

 

Asrock Z270 Pro4

7700K not OC'ed yet

16GB ram (2x8gb)

1060 6gb

 

If this is possible I will probably setup the old pc to run pfsense. Thanks for your input!

[Master Disaster]

Unraid would bring you an entirely new set of problems. You'd need either 2 monitors, keyboards and mice or you'd need to keep swapping cables every time you wanted to swap machines.

[audiocycle]

I run unraid headless, I only connect to it through the web ui, so that isn't real problem for me. Have you had bad experiences with unraid VM's?

[Master Disaster]

Just now, audiocycle said:

I run unraid headless, I only connect to it through the web ui, so that isn't real problem for me. Have you had bad experiences with unraid VM's?

Not at all, in my experience UnRaid performs well for what it does but I've only ever played with it for fun. I've never ran it seriously.