September 2, 20223 yr At the moment I have unraid running on a 4th Gen intel CPU with 1050 gfx card and it's basically a Plex Media server with the *arrs. It works fine and does very important work because my partner is severely disabled and in chronic pain and uses the Plex media to distract/occupy and help manage her pain and mental health given she's largely housebound recovering from major surgery. We've got another 4th gen Intel box with an RX580 that does "gaming PC" duties in the lounge - very occasionally. My kid normally plays Skyrim or GTA, (VERY uncompetitively!) . . . in other words no demanding modern games. My wacky idea is based on trying to replace both with another PC that's a Ryzen 3600 + x570 + RX580. I was thinking of dedicating 2 cores and 4 threads to the Plex side of things (I could add in the 1050 for encoding) and running a Windows VM or possibly a Linux VM (I'm really enjoying Nobara on my personal PC) with the other 4 cores / 8 threads + the RX 580 passed through. 1080p gaming is all that's needed. The "gaming" aspect would get used for just a few hours a week on average - the question is whether or not such a set up would be possible to configure so it ran reasonably reliably and in a user friendly way to my non-techy family? And also is it safe to assume that a much more modern CPU like the Ryzen 3600 would run more efficiently, especially in terms of powering down when idle, than the 4690k and z97 that's currently doing unraid duties? IOW if I were to pin the Plex duties to 2 cores and the remaining 4 cores were unused 90% of the time - is that efficient? Or is it more the case that more modern CPU's work more efficiently if the compute demand is spread over the available cores? Any thoughts and general pointers gratefully accepted! Edited September 2, 20223 yr by awediohead correction
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