Hi all,
we recently moved into a house which resulted in a major network expansion and many new Services and devices.
Last thing i configured previous week was frigate with neolink and connect them to my Homeassistant (HA is running on a dedicated thin client).
Some years ago, I've build my server to idle very low (was hitting around 10W). But since using Frigate (using coral) and 12 cams, my server "idles" with 50-60% CPU Usage.
I've played with an upgrade for the last months since my cpu sometimes bottlenecks (e.g. Image imports to Immich, etc.). Until today i just sayed "i have a server to do it in the background and can let it do for the next hours". But now even the unraid UI got slower and most Apps i am hosting have also increased access times.
Current Setup is:
i5 7500 + some msi standard mobo
32GB DDR4 RAM (no ECC)
no dGPU
Besides many small Apps, those are the most resource hungry in general:
Nextcloud-aio (multiple users)
Jellyfin (multiple parallel Users)
Immich (during imports)
Frigate + Neolink (12 5MP cams - will be upgraded to 12MP in Future)
When upgrading, I would like to have ECC since i had some werid issue in the past that seemed to be RAM related (RAM tests where successful afterwards).
I was thinking about getting a used DDR5 Intel/AMD setup when they get cheap in future, but now i am thinking about just getting a DDR4 system since DDR5 uses more power anyways and i doubt that my system will profit from the RAM speed increments.
So:
Would you recommend an upgrade for me? If yes, which?
How does AMD iGPU support compares against Intel these days? Back in the days, QSV was just superior and well supported but i read more and more about good experiences with AMD iGPU.