Airbender 113 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 hello Finally i am back to MB3 but i notice spike in CPU Usage I am going to be using MB3 , Sab, Sickbered , Couch, FllexRaid , and other automation's software wonding if i need to upgrade the CPU or stay with what i got Can someone look at screen shots and provide their expert opinion Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcw07 347 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Where you transcoding at the time of the spike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Where you transcoding at the time of the spike? WOW you are fast man , ROKU 3 , MB3 I was testing move After earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcw07 347 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Well assuming it was transcoding, that is probably why you saw the spike. Your going to see that spike until we can optimize the transcoding a little better. While it might be better with a faster processor, it would still spike some. So I'd wait and see how things go after they get the optimization in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Well assuming it was transcoding, that is probably why you saw the spike. Your going to see that spike until we can optimize the transcoding a little better. While it might be better with a faster processor, it would still spike some. So I'd wait and see how things go after they get the optimization in. Hi i will wait no problem , so far you guys doing excellent work i am loving MB3 more and more every day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Yea that cpu should be fine, maybe overclock it as a hold me over until later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Not into overclocking but I will chill Thanks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbender 113 Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 hello i have left over credit from new egg and gift cards i am thinking to get a new cpu the one i wanted to get is this one AMD FX-8320 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8320FRHKBOX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113285 it is 8 core processor which will fit on my motherboard with no issue but still cant deiced , would an add on like this help with FlexRaid and MB3 proformace wise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) That would only benefit you if the transcoding process fully takes advantage of available cores. Even then you would still get a spike. It would just occur for a shorter period of time. I also get a spike sending some movies to the Roku. It lasts about the first 20 minutes of watching time and then the machine acting as my server calms down. I would be more worried about the temperature than anything else. As long as you can keep that under control then you're good. The server is doing what it is supposed to do. You can prevent the spikes by pre-encoding your content to h.264 and AAC then placing them in an MKV or MP4 container. However even doing this encoding with something like Handbrake will take your processor to its full utilization. Edited January 2, 2014 by Wayne Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bloodtaker 71 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 you shouldn't need a new cpu as on my server computer im only running the amd phenom II 910e @2.6 ghz and don't have an issue streaming to multiple computers at a time only has 8gb ram and a 7770 in it so im betting it was a spike like he was saying. side note was your gpu maxed out at the time as well if so i would check for a bitcoin miner malware as i picked one up a while back had my gpu and cpu maxed out got it removed and been smooth as glass since then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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