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    chune's house build

    Ordered a different case that supports a full size ATX PSU at the front; Installed a 600w Seasonic industrial unit which appears to run silent without load (that is designed to be run in 3u chasis so has the vent and fan orientated correctly); This case has 4x80mm fans instead of 2 -- which I...
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    chune's house build

    The noctua fans are awesome! Incredibly quiet; however, I'm slightly concerned about their ability to move the same amount of air :D; After running the machine with these quiet fans I've now realised the majority of the noise comes from the 1U PSU (DUH!) which switches to full fan as soon as...
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    Ordered a 60mm and 80mm 4-pin PWM noctua fans; one for the CPU and one for the rear of the case to test; I have a feeling they won't be able to push enough air through to keep it at a low enough temp but its worth a shot; if it doesn't work I can always send them back; Amazon is so great with...
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    chune's house build

    Turns out I'd not fully seated the USB controller connector on the back panel PCB so the two usb 2.0 controllers on the board worked fine! So I have 2x USB 2.0 and 2x USB 3.0 controllers just from the motherboard itself; the on board ones don't need a hub to work with OS X unlike the PEXUSB4DP...
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    Managed to get at least 2 of the on-board controllers passed through; the vm needs to boot with the devices attached or else the port fails with various errors but its unlikely we'll need to do any hot swapping; I've yet to try if it works via a powered hub. For some reason the PEXUSB4DP only...
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    chune's house build

    Gave up in the end; requested a refund from Amazon to send the most recent PEXUSB3S44V back; Can't waste any more time on this card for the sake of future expansion :D; Tried everything I'd tried before but back on ESXi 5.5 (so strange going back to the desktop client); The on board USB...
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    chune's house build

    The Asus x99-e WS turned up yesterday; awesome board! (So so heavy!!) Still no luck with the PEXUSB3S44V; I feel like it's a little closer this time -- sometimes when the guest boots there aren't any errors; and I can see via a USB optical mouse that keeps starting; then going dim; it cycles...
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    chune's house build

    So at the weekend I set up a bare metal Windows 10 install and got both the new and original ebay STCPEXUSB3S44V controller working; upgraded both of their firmware to the latest; upgraded the bios on the Extreme4 and still neither of them would play nice under a guest Windows 10 via ESXi (but...
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    chune's house build

    Were there any particular steps you took to get this working under Windows? I bought one from eBay a few months back for half price and never got it to work - assuming it was faulty I bought a brand new one from Amazon that arrived today that behaves exactly the same. With the Microsoft drivers...
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    chune's house build

    While I'm here; DVI-D cable ends are just a tad bigger than 1"; I guess you could maybe pull them at an angle but still I can't imagine trying to do this over a long distance without causing damage to the connector! Did you really use 1" tube? I also can't imagine terminating a DVI cable... I...
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    chune's house build

    Thanks for replying so quick! This post hasn't been updated in over a year so I didn't know if you'd come back and reply! Cool; I have an ASRock Extreme 4; which appears to have 2 on board controllers -- however passing them through yields nothing, so not sure which ports they control -- likely...
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    chune's house build

    chune how did you get the Startech STCPEXUSB3S44V quad usb controller working on OS X ? I've been down this rabbit hole before when I did my workstation and tried a few options but in the end settled on a Synergy solution - which worked great in a single user environment - However, for this...
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