Raven Ridge

3500 mb/s read, 2100 mb/s write, at least on the 1tb & up.

I could do that, but the gaming aspect is what I'm after. If I can use Steam Game Stream @4k60 that's ideal. When HDR gaming is added down the road it'll be even better. But the good news is that I actually did find a Z270 motherboard that has an HDMI 2.0 port on it. The plan is back on \o/ The speeds on the 960 pro are blistering & if / when I do make this build I'll be sure to create both a build log with speed tests included.

I think this plan has bit the dust unfortunately. One of the biggest reasons I went with the 7700T rather than 6700T was because Kaby Lake supports 4k@60hz natively in its iGPU. This is great; the only problem however is that none of the ITX motherboards have an HDMI 2.0a/b port included, only 1.4 as far as I can tell. Therefore I won't get full 4k support without getting a discrete GPU anyway. That sucks My only option outside of building a dedicated gaming pc for the living room (thinking about it, it may be the same price altogether - but then I won't have a nas for all my stuff) is buying an Nvidia Shield TV & streaming the games that way. I'll leave this thread up because this idea appears to be new & if someone finds it you can pick up where I left off. If all you want is 1080p streaming my plan is still (seemingly) doable, but I don't think I'll try it at this point. Good luck!

Ah finally someone bit, thank you! I've searched the forums & I found people who are sort of doing the same thing however they have dGPUs for their VMs. I may well be a guinea pig for this situation & a pretty expensive one at that. Here's a rough list (still deciding on a chassis; yes I know dominators are overkill but I'm superficial & I like aesthetics :P): PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-7700T 2.9GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.99 @ B&H) Motherboard: ASRock H270M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($106.99 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($159.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 960 Pro 1.0TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($629.95 @ B&H) Storage: Western Digital Red 8TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($299.99 @ B&H) Storage: Western Digital Red 8TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($299.99 @ B&H) Storage: Western Digital Red 8TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($299.99 @ B&H) Storage: Western Digital Red 8TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($299.99 @ B&H) Total: $2416.88 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-12 23:51 EDT-0400 | Generated by [PCPartPicker](http://pcpartpicker.com) 2017-03-12 23:51 EDT-0400 |

I've been mulling over an unraid build for about 6 months now as I save up for the parts. My goal is to have all my media in a secure & stable raid solution while doubling as a "gaming" PC - emphasis on the quotes. I want to run an i7 7700T which has integrated graphics. With that iGPU I want to use unraid's IGD solution to use the integrated graphics in a Windows VM. Here's where things get tricky: I want to use Steam In Home Streaming in the Windows 10 VM so I can leave the PC on (~25w idle, power bill won't suffer) 24/7 & just turn on the controller when I want to play. All the i7 will need to do is decode the h.264 stream that Steam is sending so theoretically it should be doable, but I don't want to drop around $3k on the build without making sure it'd work first. I did some digging & it appears that AMD's APUs don't have any issues pushing their graphics in a Windows VM, so if the i7 isn't feasible then I'll wait for AMD's Ryzen APU lineup dubbed "Raven Ridge." It'll come at a pretty big performance penalty though so I hope the first option works. I also have a question about the cache drive. I'll be using a Jackett docker with Plex, so whatever I'm downloading should be cached as well as the VM. I'm not entirely sure how frequently I'll be caching things simultaneously so to be on the safe side I went with a 1tb 960 Pro (wiki says to get the fastest SSD possible - this is it). I don't need a huge size for the VM because the only thing it'll be doing is hosting Steam Big Picture mode, so would you say that 1tb is over kill?