yonubear 1 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 quick question I am looking to upgrade my server as I am currently running my storage system on a old first gen i3 laptop and though it run reasonably well as a file server since I am changing over to emby most of my playback will be direct play I only plan to have 1 connection doing any transcoding. and none of the original files are stored at over 1080p. I would assume i need to toss a dedicated GPU on the system and if it matters i will be running linux. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37094 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Hi, a GPU is not required for transcoding, but it can help. what CPU will the server have? It might be enough on it's own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonubear 1 Posted December 27, 2022 Author Share Posted December 27, 2022 sorry it will have a i5-2400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8296 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 More than likely yes as you will not really get any decoding via that CPU. But if all h264 you may be fine. It does appear to have QSV Intel® HD Graphics 2000 All you can do is some testing to see if it meets your needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonubear 1 Posted December 27, 2022 Author Share Posted December 27, 2022 thanks thanks i will ask if anyone can recommend the lowest power GPU that will work for GPU based transcoding in the event I decide to ad one as the system is in a low-profile case with only a 350w PSU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8296 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 It really comes back to your media as you say. 3 hours ago, yonubear said: I only plan to have 1 connection doing any transcoding. and none of the original files are stored at over 1080p. So what you have could work just fine. It really depends on how your media is encoded and potentially subtitle types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonubear 1 Posted December 27, 2022 Author Share Posted December 27, 2022 thank you I will give it a try then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RanmaCanada 345 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 If you want the lowest power server that will have no problems, get and i3-8130u laptop. When I used mine, it peaked at 15 watts power usage. Your i5-2400 is the first gen of quicksync and it's really, REALLY bad. So any transcoding will be complete garbage. For a video card that will fit in your case, you'd be looking at a low proflie 1050Ti, which are still stupidly priced, and you can buy a used laptop for the price of one of them. I don't recommend AMD as their video encoding is garbage still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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