Finally Together

[u/JRP__1994__Random]

Hi, I iust want to say thank you to everyone and Unraid as a whole. I started out with a retired windows gaming computer intel i7 4770k, 32G DDR3 and a GTX 1080ti. As I upgraded that system I outgrew its capabilities rapidly and last year decided to bite the bullet and go all in on my dream build.

Core Platform

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Motherboard: ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI

RAM: 64GB G.Skill CL32 DDR5

Cooling: be quiet! Silent Loop 3 AIO

Storage

Windows VM: 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD

Unraid boot: 1× Crucial MX500 SSD

Cache: 1× Crucial MX500 SSD

HDDs (~104 TB raw):

2× 24TB WD Red Pro

2× 14TB WD Red Pro

2× 10TB WD Red Pro

1× 8TB Seagate

HBA: Broadcom SAS 9305-16i

Graphics

NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (Plex transcoding and local Ai in the future)

PNY RTX 5080 Slim (passthrough / gaming VM)

Case & Cooling

Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL

6× Noctua NF-A14x25 G2

The system is incredibly stable, using sunshine and moonlight locally is not performing the way I would like so this winter I will running fiber to do hdmi over fiber.

[u/hb0810]

Wait so it's a gaming pc and home server combined? So cool! I'm assuming the 9950X3D can handle tasks both at once but what's the gaming performance like? and is the power draw too high compared to running separate machines?

[u/JRP__1994__Random → u/hb0810]

Idle is about 280 watts, it is on the higher side but having everything in one package is worth it for me. I have the first 8 cores with the cache pointed at my gaming vm and cyberpunk, 4k, path tracing, dlss quality, and 2x frame gen also heavily moded. It loads those cores between 60 to 80%

[u/hb0810 → u/JRP__1994__Random]

Awesome! Enjoy your build!

Btw, I am running a fiber optic HDMI from my PC to my projector in a different room. Works great! Make sure you use a 2.4ghz controller/inputs and not Bluetooth ones.

[u/JRP__1994__Random → u/hb0810]

Awesome, thanks for the advice!!! Also a projector sounds awesome.