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MK8VA6XC2T

Hello,

I'm currently planning a new home server to replace my NAS and do some other jobs too.

It should run Proxmox and some containers / VMs.

 

One container should be Emby which needs to transcode 1080p h.264/h.265 files to a maximum of 2-3 clients at the same time.

I'm not very good with choosing hardware so I hope you can help me out here.

 

My current favorite is a Intel Xeon E-2134.

But it doesn't have a gpu and no Intel Quick Sync...

Probably it would be better to have Quick Sync for video transcoding, right?

The favorite mainboard "Supermicro X11SCH-LN4F" has "Aspeed AST2500" graphics but I don't really know what this means.

Probably not very helpful for transcoding...

 

And no, I don't really want to use a dedicated GPU in that server since it should run 24/7.

(Even if Transcoding is max. 4-6 hours per day)

 

Is this good enough or what recommendations do you have?
 

PS:

Pls don't tell me to just stop this server project because I'm stupid and don't even know shit about CPUs and stuff.

I'm not very good with hardware but familiar enough with setting up a server. Thanks!

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lorac

An Intel 7700 or better would probably be a better choice. The GPU HD630 is built in and is the same from the 7000 series and up.

 

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Guest asrequested

All AMD Ryzens support ECC. If you're not going to use hardware acceleration, look at Threadripper (and maybe Epyc) CPUs.

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MK8VA6XC2T

Threadripper and stuff like this is too expensive for what I want to build.

Also too much electricity cost. I mean they have like 36 cores right? lol... No I don't need that :D

The thing that needs most power at the server is the video transcoding with emby I guess.

So 300-400€ is my absolute maximum.

 

I just don't know for what feature of the CPU I should look out?
What helps me best for video transcoding?
- Single core performance?

- More threads?
- hardware based h.264 / h.265 en/decoding? (Should have most CPUs now anyway)

- Intel Quick Sync?

 

I just don't know what kind of features and power in the CPU I need to transcode 2-3 1080p streams flawlessly?

While running some other little stuff next to it. So it shouldn't be at 100% load while doing that.

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Guest asrequested

Well if you want low power, that rules out most Xeons. You probably want a gen 8 Intel. The stuff with 6 cores, then you can cut the threads up for your VMs and use the GPU for transcoding.

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