I’m really happy with how this turned out. Not to say it couldn’t use some upgrades, but wow. I didn’t push it to its fullest capabilities even. I put a handful of Windows VMs on this and a TrueNas Core file server. It still has plenty of horsepower to setup a pfSense firewall, Pi-hole, some linux boxes and more. It was fantastic for basic gaming and video editing. Biggest complaint was it was a little noisy. Even under heavy load and 10K RPM hard drives the power utilization never went over 400W. The way I had it built out would put it in the $1000 range at time of recording. If you did an all out config you could easily run yourself up to $2000
Specs of this build:
Dual Xeon E5-2540 2.1GHz eight core
192GB PC3L-12800R (12x 16GB DDR3)
Dell Perc H710 1GB RAID Controller
8x 300GB 10K RPM SAS Drives (1.6TB Raid 50)
iDrac 7 enterprise
Intel i350-T4 quad port NIC
EVGA NVIDIA 1070 8GB
NEC USB 3.0 card
Dual 1100W power supplies
0:00 Intro
4:16 Unigen Heaven benchmark
7:04 Cinebench R23
10:30 Final tests and outro
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