7 x R9 Nano LTT Build

IanAG · 5 Jan 2016 at 18:23

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I'm probably more interested in the software used to run 7 VMs like that.

Haven't watched the video as he annoys me too much but I would guess the software is unRAID. I know he has a beta of the next version.

I have been using it for years as a NAS solution but in the latest major version they have made some huge strides forwards with various virtualisation options. I have dabbled with Xen and VMWare for a while with hardware passthrough but Limetech seem to have pretty much nailed it now.

Haven't spent as much time as I would like tweaking it but I am running a Dell T5500 with dual Xeon X5650 CPUs and 60GB of RAM. I have a GTX 960 in there which is passed through to a W7 machine with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM. Haven't tested extensively but works for Steam streaming, just need to get a Steam Link to use on the downstairs TV.

Panos · 5 Jan 2016 at 19:42

IanAG said:
Haven't watched the video as he annoys me too much but I would guess the software is unRAID. I know he has a beta of the next version.

I have been using it for years as a NAS solution but in the latest major version they have made some huge strides forwards with various virtualisation options. I have dabbled with Xen and VMWare for a while with hardware passthrough but Limetech seem to have pretty much nailed it now.

Haven't spent as much time as I would like tweaking it but I am running a Dell T5500 with dual Xeon X5650 CPUs and 60GB of RAM. I have a GTX 960 in there which is passed through to a W7 machine with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM. Haven't tested extensively but works for Steam streaming, just need to get a Steam Link to use on the downstairs TV.

Yeah I believe he says is using unRaid.

And impressed me, because he was playing on a X34 Crysis 3 with everything maxed out bouncing between 80-110fps, while the other 6 VMs were running Heaven on X34s also!!!!

Seriously, that is some sweet electricity to computing power conversion there.

Never believed you can have such performance on VM.

Dave2150 said:
Ah, good to know.

Cracking cards these Nano's

I will let you know how it behaves tomorrow. £400 for a damn FuryX is bargain. Considering is as fast if not faster than a GTX980Ti for heaven sake. And since a friend of mine is buying the i7 4820K & X79 GD45Plus, time to side grade to an i5 Haswell until Zen is out.
And that because most of the games I play use 1-2 cores (TESO, SWTOR, WOT, WOWs) while others like Attila or upcoming XCOM2 I will be OK at 4 cores. The i7 will not be missed.

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And while I was looking for 6600K vs 4690K argument came to this review.
Look those A10s at 4K res ROFLMAO

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/85370-intel-core-i5-6600k-14nm-skylake/?page=8
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GoogalyMoogaly · 5 Jan 2016 at 21:03

Panos said:
Yeah I believe he says is using unRaid.

And impressed me, because he was playing on a X34 Crysis 3 with everything maxed out bouncing between 80-110fps, while the other 6 VMs were running Heaven on X34s also!!!!

Seriously, that is some sweet electricity to computing power conversion there.
Never believed you can have such performance on VM.

Yeah, think he said unRaid, possibly something else too.
It was the performance that impressed me. I thought with it being a VM everything would be virtualized and take a big performance hit.

Panos said:
I will let you know how it behaves tomorrow. £400 for a damn FuryX is bargain. Considering is as fast if not faster than a GTX980Ti for heaven sake. And since a friend of mine is buying the i7 4820K & X79 GD45Plus, time to side grade to an i5 Haswell until Zen is out.
And that because most of the games I play use 1-2 cores (TESO, SWTOR, WOT, WOWs) while others like Attila or upcoming XCOM2 I will be OK at 4 cores. The i7 will not be missed.

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And while I was looking for 6600K vs 4690K argument came to this review.
Look those A10s at 4K res ROFLMAO

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/85370-intel-core-i5-6600k-14nm-skylake/?page=8
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Na, doubt it'll beat a 980Ti in Heaven

Panos · 5 Jan 2016 at 21:15

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Yeah, think he said unRaid, possibly something else too.
It was the performance that impressed me. I thought with it being a VM everything would be virtualized and take a big performance hit.

Na, doubt it'll beat a 980Ti in Heaven

Challenge accepted. We shall see when I watercool it, and overclock it

(Albeit with an ~~i5 4690~~ i5 6600K since there are no sensible mITX motherboard in stock for Z97

).

Orangey · 5 Jan 2016 at 21:34

pgi947 said:
Yeah it was, around 1500w under load too, which isn't bad at all considering what's packed inside...

Watched the video yesterday, the part that baffled me was his only psu choice being the evga 1600w unit, he should have given gibbo a shout for one of those 2000w 8 pack edition super flowers

They can't use those in Yank.

Something about the mains circuits being 110V.

pgi947 · 6 Jan 2016 at 07:46

That's a good point, aren't they limited to 15a? 1600w would be around 14.5a and 2000w somewhere north of 18a.

Maybe the yanks should invest in some 32a sockets

oweneades · 6 Jan 2016 at 08:32

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Yeah, think he said unRaid, possibly something else too.
It was the performance that impressed me. I thought with it being a VM everything would be virtualized and take a big performance hit.

The software and configuration used is a "tweak" to that shown in the Two gamers, one system video he did a month or so ago. There is a lot of configuration behind the scenes (most of which you would have to pause the video to read) but the end result is pretty damn cool. Taking that to the next level with 7 virtual systems is down right liquid nitrogen levels.

darwin1859 · 6 Jan 2016 at 09:58

Panos said:
Seriously, that is some sweet electricity to computing power conversion there.
Never believed you can have such performance on VM.
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I think it was down to the ability to hardware passthrough, so the GPU could be assigned to one VM. I think there were other hacks involved though.

~Mike~ · 6 Jan 2016 at 10:57

Orangey said:
They can't use those in Yank.

Linus isn't a yank

Marine-RX179 · 6 Jan 2016 at 11:22

Fury Nano Mega Mac...look quite tasty

madtoady · 6 Jan 2016 at 12:55

Crazy system!

David Bisset · 6 Jan 2016 at 13:16

~Mike~ said:
Linus isn't a yank

Didn't they say the system needed to be running at CES?

thebennyboy · 6 Jan 2016 at 15:59

I think it's sad how much ass Linus kisses these days. AMD supplied 7 R9 Nano's and Kingston supplied 256GB of DDR4 memory, he only thanks Kingston and not AMD.

Am i missing something?

Marine-RX179 · 6 Jan 2016 at 16:03

thebennyboy said:
I think it's sad how much ass Linus kisses these days. AMD supplied 7 R9 Nano's and Kingston supplied 256GB of DDR4 memory, he only thanks Kingston and not AMD.

Am i missing something?

He did thank the "respective manufacturers" and skillfully avoid thanking AMD directly

thebennyboy · 6 Jan 2016 at 16:06

Marine-RX179 said:
He did thank the "respective manufacturers" and skillfully avoid thanking AMD directly

Had it been Nvidia he would have thanked them personally. Can't help but feel he is biased, companies can buy his opinion and it's so sad. Cancelled my Vessel subscription, not worth watching the elitist crap he comes out with now. He didn't thank Gigabyte either who i believe supplied the specialist motherboards.

ChannelSuperFun is pretty good but the other main channels have lost it for me personally.

Freddie1980 · 6 Jan 2016 at 16:37

thebennyboy said:
Had it been Nvidia he would have thanked them personally. Can't help but feel he is biased, companies can buy his opinion and it's so sad. Cancelled my Vessel subscription, not worth watching the elitist crap he comes out with now. He didn't thank Gigabyte either who i believe supplied the specialist motherboards.

ChannelSuperFun is pretty good but the other main channels have lost it for me personally.

It depends on who sends him the hardware, AMD don't typically supply there own cards so why would he thank them? I would be more salty if were the board partner.

Quartz · 6 Jan 2016 at 16:54

Running games is all well and good, but I wonder if there might be a real demand for this sort of set-up from the Photoshop and Autocad enthusiasts?

theaterix · 6 Jan 2016 at 17:19

thebennyboy said:
Had it been Nvidia he would have thanked them personally. Can't help but feel he is biased, companies can buy his opinion and it's so sad. Cancelled my Vessel subscription, not worth watching the elitist crap he comes out with now. He didn't thank Gigabyte either who i believe supplied the specialist motherboards.

ChannelSuperFun is pretty good but the other main channels have lost it for me personally.

They were supplied by performancepc's??? He thanks them multiple times...?

Orangey · 6 Jan 2016 at 18:24

Quartz said:
Running games is all well and good, but I wonder if there might be a real demand for this sort of set-up from the Photoshop and Autocad enthusiasts?

There's always someone who can use it. I seem to recall when Titan launched quite a few people who don't normally post here were interested and they had all kinds of use cases.

Dave2150 · 6 Jan 2016 at 18:39

thebennyboy said:
I think it's sad how much ass Linus kisses these days. AMD supplied 7 R9 Nano's and Kingston supplied 256GB of DDR4 memory, he only thanks Kingston and not AMD.

Am i missing something?

We should just be happy AMD got such massive publicity from this video.

Whether people like Linus or not, his channel is now huge, probably the biggest/most powerful channel in terms of marketing.

This is a major boon for AMD, you can be sure there will be a lot of Nano purchases that there would never have happened otherwise.

Also quite embarrassing for NVIDIA, that despite the billions more they have in R&D, supply, market power, that they were unable to produce GPU's that have as much power as the nano in that form factor.