Hi,
I'm making a plant to upgrade my current unraid server from my old gaming pc parts to a more powerful and power efficient machine. My budget is around $500 give or take and I'm mainly looking to upgrade the CPU, Motherboard, and Power Supply. My current build consists of an Intel® Core™ i7-8700K, ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING, 32GB DDR4, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, LSI 9211-8i 6G SAS HBA, 10 HHDs, 2 NVMe SSDs, 6 120mm fans. I know what docker containers I will be running, this is mainly a plex and minecraft sever build. I use Tdarr to convert my videos to h265 and most my plex client devices can play back h265 so I'm not transcoding back to H264 a majority of the time. Looking to upgrade the CPU to one with UHD 770 Graphics to be able to remove the dGPU. I heard hat the intel UHD 770 Graphics are amazing at transcoding. So my question is, is there a difference in UHD 770 Graphics performance based on i3/i5/i7 and 12th and 13th gen? In searching I couldn't find a clear answer. From what I read no but just want to make sure. Is a i7-2700k over kill? I would like some performance wiggle room. Any advice on motherboards would be awesome. Would prefer DDR4 compatible but what affect DDR4 vs DDR5 has on the UHD 770 Graphics I don't know. I'm also looking to get a 600W Platinum power supply. And I probably will replace the LSI 9211-8i 6G SAS HBA with a ASM1166 sata card.
Screenshot of my current docker containers: