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Thanks for the clarification and education. These forums are always helpful to me since this is not my background. speedbal

garycase... Took back the one from frys (saved more by bundling at microcenter). As far as the supermicro board/xeon combo......I couldn't find a board under 200 that would support 2 video cards (planning to run VMs and i want the option to run at least 2 VMs needing video) and support from my 2 sata cards (my rig has 20 sata drive slots). Maybe I missed it. Plus the price I mentioned included memory. I don't believe the mobo/processor combo you mentioned from newegg included ram. Mine did (more delta). Am I missing something? If the price delta was really on $32, I would jump on it quickly (this is all still unopened, so not afraid to return if I am wrong). Thanks, in advance, for the help. speedbal

Thanks all for the feedback..... here is what I ended up with (will build it next weekend). I was able to purchase all this from my local microcenter and ended getting a pretty good deal in my opinion. Asus z97-E: $109.99 - $20.00 (processor bundle) = $89.99 http://www.microcenter.com/product/446625/Z97-E_LGA_1150_ATX_Intel_Motherboard Intel i7-4790k: $249.99 http://www.microcenter.com/product/434176/Core_i7-4790K_40GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor 2x Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 Memory: $69.99 - $10.00 (processor/motherboard bundle) = $59.99 x 2 = $119.98 http://www.microcenter.com/product/385182/Ballistix_Sport_16GB_DDR3-1600_(PC3-12800)_CL9_Dual_Channel_Desktop_Memory_Kit_(Two_8GB_Memory_Modules) Total = $459.96 + Tax When I compared the cost, ECC just didn't make the cut (hopefully I won't regret this cost vs. benefit analysis). Again....thanks for all the help. speedbal

Appreciate all the discussion. Is there a reasonably priced ECC supported motherboard? The extra $100ish seems hard to justify for ECC (my data isn't mission critical by any means). Seems like the 1150 motherboards that support ECC are 200-250$US and a reasonably good Asus/Asrock/Gigabyte is 100-150$US. I don't mind paying extra for ECC support.....just 20-25% total upgrade premium seems a bit much (motherboard + ram....processor cost is negligible). Want to spend around 500-600$US for this upgrade (if possible) with 32mb of ram. Thanks, in advance.... speedbal.

DMI 3.0 and support for up to 64GB DDR4 ECC. 14nm chip vs 22nm. Means it should run cooler and faster. Probably draw slightly less power. I haven't seen any passmark scores on them yet. If I was buying an E3 today it's what I would buy. Supermicro should have motherboards out soon if not already. Supermicro boards just announced quite a few 1151 boards. Can't seem to find much availability on them at the moment in the states. Quite a few options.... some with many sata/sas connections. Too bad they aren't more readily available at the moment. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#1151

Appreciate the recommendation. These take new 1151 motherboards........ and I think require DDR4 ram (vs DDR3). Are you aware of any advantages in moving to this generation vs. staying with the last generation? At one time I always had to have the newest/best....now (in my old age of ~40) I try to make sure there is a reason to do it. Here is the comparison of the processors I am considering from ark: http://ark.intel.com/compare/80915,80807,88177 Yeah I have only started my research on ECC. Seems it is one of those things that everyone recommends, but is very rarely used. Currently leaning toward not going the ECC route (although my research continues). Seems like many people on this board do not have it in their systems....haven't heard of any issues. Thanks for the responses.....keep them coming. speedbal

Thanks gary for the response. I have IPMI on my current setup and very rarely use it (I have my setup hooked up to a monitor/keyboard all the time). ECC.......i read that this is very important for a data system (to help prevent errors due to memory, I think). Looks like most on this board do get ECC ram if it is supported by processor/mobo. The cost difference in the ram itself isn't that significant, so that wouldn't be a driver either way. I guess the biggest call is whether or not to spend the extra $100US on a motherboard that supports ECC (the supermicro SL7 that is recommended on here is about 250US$ vs. most of the good z97/h97 motherboards being 150US$ish). Decisions decisions....... System today is a data storage repository for all my media. I also use a few dockers today that I would continue to use in the future. I haven't been able to use virtualization on my system, but I do see using a W10 and/or a linux VM for various tasks I have running on other machines. Not sure my use case needs all this horsepower.........yet. speedbal

After doing a bit more research, the Xeon E3 processors I would consider are these: E3-1276v3 - 280US$ - http://www.microcenter.com/product/442357/Xeon_E3_1276V3_36GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor E3-1246v3 - 240US$ - http://www.microcenter.com/product/442356/Xeon_E3_1246V3_35GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor By the way - Microcenter also has the 4790k for the same price as Fry's (250US$): http://www.microcenter.com/product/434176/Core_i7-4790K_40GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor Appreciate any thoughts you have to help me land on a decision. speedbal

Just purchased one of these (i7-4790k) myself (in case I figure out it is what I want to use for my updated rig). Here is the ad: http://images.frys.com/art/email/112515_wed103wpz/wed_web.html?site=cemail112515#set0 This is a promo code sale (and in store only), so you need to sign up and get the deals sent to your inbox. http://images.frys.com/art/email/images/signuppages/fryspromocom.html?site=72premail112515 UPDATE - Just found out it is same price at Microcenter as well: http://www.microcenter.com/product/434176/Core_i7-4790K_40GHz_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor Enjoy!

Hello Unraid world! Time has come for me to update my system (i have one of the repurposed servers from ebay that were popular here a few years ago). Now I want to come into the v6 world and be able to run virtual machines, etc. Now to my questions... 1) I was able to procure a i7-4790k from Fry's today (11/25/2015) for 250$US. They were running a promo sale today (91$US off) and I didn't want to miss out. Is this suitable for my purposes described above? I was going to get one of the 1150 v3 xeon's, but the performance on this one seem to be significantly higher. I think I loose ECC support (which could be a big deal in a data environment), so I wanted to check with you guys on you thoughts and if other trade offs I am missing. I certainly can take the processor back, but I didn't want to miss out on the deal. Link to the sale for those curious: http://images.frys.com/art/email/112515_wed103wpz/wed_web.html?site=cemail112515#set0 2) Motherboards: Seems like what everyone is using is the supermicro boards. Just curious if I stay with the 4790k, should I go with one of those or one of the many z97 chipset boards from asus/gigabyte. Linus used an asus for his build in that video that was posted, so just curious on your thoughts. Thanks in advance for your help. speedbal

Well....My system is now up after removing the cache drive from the webgui. Thanks! I guess it is time to get a new cache drive? Here is the smart report of that drive. Not sure if I can get the info off of this drive (dockers, etc.) easily. Anybody got any advice on how to try once I get a new cache drive? Everybody moving to SSD now for cache (mine was a WD Black)? thanks again for your help speedbal. WDC_WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0_WD-WCAW33566795-20151018-0817.txt

Good Morning: For the past view days I have been trying to figure out what is wrong with my Unraid system. It initially started doing this in 6.1.1 (although it ran fine on it for a while - which leads me to believe it is hardware related), however I updated to 6.1.3 and it continues. My system allows me to start up in maintenance mode (array offline), however as soon as I try to put the array online, it crashes/locks up and is unresponsive to the the webgui as well as the console directly. I was finally able to catch the syslog while it crashes (tail3.txt in the zip file), however I can't find the culprit hardware item. I also attached a clean syslog with it booting into maintenance mode. Just need your help to identify if it is time to replace something (some components are fairly old). Thanks, in advance, for your help. speedbal syslog_and_tail_syslog.zip

At this point it only appears you support stable releases. Any chance you will use the "edge" modifier like the other dockers so that we can choose to use one of the other more bleeding edge releases? Thanks for supporting the community. Everything works very well so far (using Nzbget and Sonarr at the moment). speedbal

This combination will not work (and if it appeared on the Limetech web page it had to be an error - can't find it there now). X10SL7 is based on Haswell, not Ivy Bridge. 1150 socket. The applicable processor is (e.g.) E3-1230v3 and not v2. It doesn't seem to be a simple typo, too (typing 2 instead of 3) - the Limetech page specifically says Ivy Bridge and quotes other specs that are specific to E3-1230v2's. So it can't be X10SL7. Guess they made a mistake on processor name (although it does say or "equivalent" for motherboard). Above is a screenshot from from this morning. It could confuse those who look to duplicate the limetech builds - like me. I hope they fix it soon. That being said, it comes from the horses mouth about what motherboard they are using in their servers: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=33137.msg304902#msg304902 We are using Supermicro MBD-X10SL7-F motherboards in next batch of AVS-10/4 servers which includes an on-board LSI 2308 that works great with or without Xen. Probably the issue you are seeing will be solved with a kernel update (because a kernel update implies driver updates). I was hoping -beta5 would include this but all the bad PR over 'heartbleed' has made it necessary for us to push that fix out now.

Not sure, but it seems to be what LimeTech is using for their builds. That is a fairly significant endorsement in my book (i am looking for a new MB as well - my current supermicro is a bit long in the tooth). From their order page: http://lime-technology.com/avs-104-server/ Supermicro X10SL7-F (or equivalent) Intel Xeon E3-1230V2 3.3GHz 69Watt Quad-Core Processor 16GB DDR3/1600 ECC DRAM standard Additional 16GB DDR3/1600 ECC DRAM [+ $200]