Processor musical chairs!

[Nathanio 35]

I have collected a random selection of processors over the last year and thinking about moving them around to get the best from them. 

 

Current setup:

 

EmbyServer

WHS2011, 8GB RAM, Xeon E3-1240 v1, ATi 5450, 256GB SSD, plethora of HDDs

 

EmbyTV

Windows 10, 8GB RAM, i5 3550S, HD2500, 128GB SSD 

 

Desktop

Windows 10, 16GB RAM, i5-4570S, HD4600, 128GB SSD

 

I have access to the following processors:

 

• Core i5-3550S
• Core i3-3240
• Core i5-4570TE

I am thinking of moving stuff around and doing the following:

 

• Change Xeon E3-1240 to an i5-3550S to get access to QuickSync transcoding in Emby
• Change EmbyTV to the 4570TE as its 35w TDP and has the newer HD4600 iGPU for movie playback

I had considered changing the server though to the i5-4570S that is in my desktop PC to give the server the HD4600 GPU. 

 

I'm not sure what to do really!

 

Thoughts?

[Wireratt 0]

If i were you I would use the haswell i5 in the emby server. I have the 4670k in mine. The igpu is much stronger for quik sync.

 

I would suspect that sandy bridge xeon with HT does pretty good.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Wireratt

[Nathanio 35]

I think that's what I am going to do. However; I'm going to sell all my IVB/SB stuff and go haswell. DXO and Handbrake are quicksync enabled and I don't want to lose that functionality on my desktop. 

 

So it looks like a new i5 4xxx series will have to be purchased....