April 25, 20215 yr Hi All, Just starting my Unraid journey and planning out the move from my current Ubuntu + docker setup over to Unraid. I'm 90% of the way there mostly thanks to Spaceinvaders helpful videos. Currently my server is running with an i5-2500k with a modest/safe OC to 4.3. I also have a spare i7-3770 (non K) kicking about and I've been trying to figure out which would be best suited for the server. In general will the OC'd 2500 with 4 cores / 4 threads be a better option or will the higher thread count of the I7 be better? Main use will be as a plex server and the apps that go along with that, a few other more lightweight dockers and I've also been running a valheim server docker as well and may continue to do so. My plan moving forward is to invest in a new mobo/cpu but need to save up for that so meantime just want to get as much as possible from the current board.
April 25, 20215 yr Author 1 hour ago, trurl said: Generally not recommended to OC server Yeah that was my first thought - obviously raises the chance for errors and potential crashes. I only had it set this way as it was previously my gaming pc that I repurposed for a server and never bothered to change it as it was fairly solid. However I've not had any form of raid previously either. I'm guessing cpu errors/crashes won't be very helpful with unraid, could it even cause data loss?
April 25, 20215 yr 32 minutes ago, cavinyagi said: I'm guessing cpu errors/crashes won't be very helpful with unraid, could it even cause data loss? Yes.
April 25, 20215 yr Author Thanks for the help so far! That makes things a bit more straight forward then as a stock 2500 vs a stock 3770 is an easy win for the 3770 haha. From what i've read the hd-4000 igpu isn't up to much cope for plex transcoding is that correct? Finally looking forward I'm aiming for as new as I can afford Intel cpu (Hoping 9th gen or newer) and I plan to use the igpu for plex, I'd also like to use the new machine for gaming via a windows VM. From what I've seen so far passing a discrete gpu through to the VM would be easy enough and performance should be close to bare bones. Would using the igpu for plex transcoding cause a major performance hit? (Ignoring any cpu usage needed for the transcoding itself)
April 26, 20215 yr 17 hours ago, cavinyagi said: Would using the igpu for plex transcoding cause a major performance hit? (Ignoring any cpu usage needed for the transcoding itself) Should improve performance for both transcoding and for other processes using cpu. Many of us do it that way.
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