My system will boot from a pair of NVMe SSD's in RAID1 I also wanted the option of having a third PCIe 16x slot available for a GPU to accellerate Plex if required, and additionally the option of adding a faster NIC in future. My reasoning, as a starting point i need a basic GPU to run the system (in my case an RX550) and a 16x slot for my LSI HBA. The 2700x would have been happy with the box cooler, but i ended up buying an AIO for the 1900x. One thing i hadnt quite considered was cooling. I got a used X399 board for £150, slightly more than a half decent AM4 board, but actually, to get the PCIe config i wanted, i was going to need a top end X570 board coming in close to £300. I got a brand new 1900x for £140, which is cheaper than used 2700x's are selling for. I've just gone down this route, and ended up with threadripper mostly due to PCIe lanes and the pricing isnt that bad at all. Just to add more detail to my answer, in order to do hardware transcoding you do require a Plex Pass (i tend to forget as I have a lifetime one).īut hardware transcoding is really the way of doing Plex properly these days, CPU is the inefficient way. It performs far more poorly in quality (side by side, a CPU & GPU transcoded stream, you can see the difference), and it doesn't support any of the modern encoding/decoding for h265/hevc which is becoming widely used, and 4K content in general (if you care about 4K).ħth Gen - 9th Gen use the same QuickSync engine and GPU so theyre all the same and the best value in terms of hardware transcoding, with the 10th Gen now being the best (but the i3-10100 is ~$150) in quality and supporting VP9-10bit encoding. TL DR the 4790K is an old CPU with an old version of the QuickSync engine. You should read that first thread I recommended. My only concern with the CPU was that there was a limited number of cores, 4, and that this would limit the concurrent streams available (as would the CPU Benchmark calculation of 2,000 pts per stream - with a CPU with just 8,000 pts total.īut if QuickSync can handle a lot more streams, then the CPU is just fine as it is?
CONVERTING THROTTLED PLEX UPGRADE
However, the i7-4790k has QuickSync already, so if I turn on Hardware Acceleration (with a FlexPass), then there will be no need to upgrade to anything at all? Here are some of the recent threads covering it, theres a lot of info in the one with we discuss GPU encoding. Video transcoding can be hardware offloaded to the QuickSync enc/dec engine to do the work this takes the work off the CPU. Plex doesn't inherently use CPU power (for direct streams).Įven media scanning doesn't use much power.if I drop my plex server to have 2 cores,it will still only use ~10% while scanning.Īudio transcoding is done by your CPU but has very low utilization. As I said in my last post we've already gone over this in recent threads.
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