Hello everyone;
I'm looking to move over from Synology and need to procure myself some parts.
I'm highly hesitating between these two combos:
Intel Core Ultra 7 265 2.4 GHz 20-Core Processor
ASRock Z890 Riptide WiFi ATX LGA1851 Motherboard
Intel Core i5-14400 2.5 GHz 10-Core Processor
ASRock Z790 PG SONIC ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
Would you say the extra cores from the I7 and extra efficiency might be worth the extra 300$ the whole setup would cost?
I know the first motherboard is a bit light in term of SATA ports, but I thinking on getting this HBA from ebay:
Broadcom HBA 9500-8i Tri-Mode Storage Cntroller SATA 6Gb/s SAS 12Gb/s PCIe
I'd love to hear what you guys think. Thanks in advance!
Edit: I forgot to mention that I'll be running some Jellyfin, Home Assistant and other containers as well as possibly a VM if/when needed. There'll probably be a couple of users at a single time and very light and occasional transcoding.