April 28, 20233 yr I have just switched from a Ryzen 9 5950x to an i7 13700 due to quick sync and power usage. I am now using about half the power at Idle with the ability to still get great performance. Really impressive how efficent the new CPU is with QuickSync for plex - also decodes Av1 I have tested and works brilliantly. Not normally an Intel person but for this use case with Unraid it works very nicely. I will put putting my RX 7900 xt into it which is currently in my 5800x3d windows bare metal rig and if it performs well be selling that rig with a RTX3070 and pocketing some cash. If not I will build a 7800x3d gaming rig eventually. So far more than impressed with Intel on Unraid mainly for power/quicksync. Really just putting this here incase someone finds it and is thinking of doing something similar. There was nothing "wrong" with the 5950x other than having to put a GPU just for transcoding. Edited April 28, 20233 yr by Stixbnr32
December 20, 20241 yr I have the same board with an i7-14700K. Were you able to get PWM fan control working? I have a CM 240L cooler, but can't seem to get is controls working with either the Dynamic plugin or with the IPMI tools plugin. I'm not sure if the issue is with the board or with the cooler. Wondering if you've had any luck with something similar?
February 8, 20251 yr On 4/28/2023 at 2:02 AM, Stixbnr32 said: I have just switched from a Ryzen 9 5950x to an i7 13700 due to quick sync and power usage. Whats the power usage at idle? 60W or less? Is the HW-transcoding working under plex? Edited February 8, 20251 yr by Zonediver
February 28, 20251 yr Any specific reason for the "steel legend" version instead of the cheaper "pro rs" variant w/o WiFi?
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