Hedgy Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 I'm looking to upgrade my cpu and motherboard. Due to the use of plex it needs to be Intel for igpu hardware transcoding. I'm thinking to go with an i7 10700 as I don't believe there is much improvement for the upcoming 11700 overall. But it does come with a newer igpu, so I've been wondering if that might make any difference worth waiting for? Dockers I will be running: Plex Radarr / sonarr Sabnzb Deluge Nextcloud Openvpn Mariadb Mongodb Ombi Pihole Swag Self made docker (running scripts in a browser hourly) (Probably more in the future) And I'll be running 1-2 VMs. I currently have 4 SATA HDDs / SSDs and 2 m2 SSDs for cache. So total 6 storage devices With this upgrade I will also add 2 more HDDs (I believe I need to upgrade my unraid to "pro" for this? Or do cache disks not count?) I'm thinking about one of the following 2 motherboards: ASRock B460M Steel Legend MSI MAG B460M Mortar These are about the same price, I picked them for 2x M2 support, 6 sata ports and 2.5gbps ethernet. I've heard a lot of praise about asrock on this forum so I'm leaning towards the asrock one. But I'd love to hear opinions for one of these or even a different one. Same goes for the cpu. In the future I may add a pcie sata card to add more HDDs. Thanks in advance ^^ Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) 19 hours ago, Hedgy said: I'm thinking to go with an i7 10700 as I don't believe there is much improvement for the upcoming 11700 overall. But it does come with a newer igpu, so I've been wondering if that might make any difference worth waiting for? The iGPU of my i7-9700 can easily transcode 8x 4K to 1080p/8MBit (Plex HW-transcoding) - so enough Power with this "old" iGPU 😉 If you plan to use a 10700, you need to take v6.9.1 Edited March 24, 2021 by Zonediver Quote Link to comment
Hedgy Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Zonediver said: The iGPU of my i7-9700 can easily transcode 8x 4K to 1080p/8MBit (Plex HW-transcoding) - so enough Power with this "old" iGPU 😉 If you plan to use a 10700, you need to take v6.9.1 ah I see, that seems like plenty (but more is always better if a new one is just around the corner ^^) So the 10700 requires the newest version of unraid? That's not a problem, but now I wonder if the 11700 may not work until another new version of unraid? Or was there something special about the 10700 that caused it not to work on older versions? Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, Hedgy said: ah I see, that seems like plenty (but more is always better if a new one is just around the corner ^^) So the 10700 requires the newest version of unraid? That's not a problem, but now I wonder if the 11700 may not work until another new version of unraid? Or was there something special about the 10700 that caused it not to work on older versions? ...depends on the Kernel... the CPU might work, but the NICs don't. Edited March 25, 2021 by Zonediver Quote Link to comment
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