Could you run a ryzen 3 1200 (4 cores, 4 threads@ 3.1ghz) on unraid

[tr3bjockey]

I'm looking to replace my dead motherboard.  Thinking about running a ryzen 3 1200 because my old server was an fx-8350 and it felt like overkill.  I only stream on my lan to one TV with Plex.  I don't do VM's.  Only turn on the server to add a movie or series I bought and also turn it on just to do plex from my living room tv through my nvidia shield.

 

Most of the movies I have are 1080p/4k and crunched down with handbrake as hvec format and have no problems with my current 1`gbit ethernet.  I don't transcode, it's full resolution without any processing.

 

So I checked https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-3-1200-vs-AMD-FX-8350/3931vs1489 and it shows that the ryzen processor is faster on single or dual core tasks than my fx-8350 which had 8 threads.  Also it's half the watts of my fx-8350 and I'm paying $0.29/Kw Hour so that's a big deal for me.

 

I can buy the processor for $126, the motherboard for $69 after rebate https://www.newegg.com/asus-tuf-gaming-b450m-plus-ii/p/N82E16813119358  (it has 6 sata ports which is the # of drives in my array) 16gb of DDR 4 ram https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0157UQ5A6?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 (DDR4 3000MHz C16) for $68. 

 

My case has plenty of slots left for hard drives, and I have the leftover cooler from my rizen 2700x that I didn't use because I water cool my main computer and didn't need it.  I also am using a spare 800 watt power supply so that's taken care of too.  I have an ati dvi port graphics card that I bought for $19 that's only used when I need to troubleshoot the server if unraid doesn't start.

 

I know some of you are doing crazy processors for unraid because of VM's or your running tons of stuff.  Are all those items above compatible with unraid and will this meet or exceed the system I had before?

 

Thank you to tall in advance for any advice.

 

 

 

 

[tr3bjockey]

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[M0zza]

I don’t see why this cpu would have an issue with Unraid. I use a Ryzen 5 1600 which handles the basics and multiple dockers with no issue at all. Sits at less than 5% most of the time.