Really Confused NAS mobo, Intel, AMD.... what route to go now?

[Randall8686]

Hey all

 

 So my think server with a E3-1226 v3 ans 16gb ram is now nearly 10 years old. Its on its second PSU and its starting having issue booting up. I think something is wrong with the memory controller as i have to mess around with Ram stick at times to get it to boot. 

Anyway i want to change the CPU, Mobo and Ram to something new. I have seen some threads on very efficient NAS mobos's etc. I currently have a Nvidia 1060 to handle some transcodes (max 2/3 remote streams) ideally i would like to handle this with a more efficient cpu that can do transcoding. 

 

I run a few dockers and cetainly nothing taxing, transcoding being the main one. now and then a very basic VM but no heavy lifting. my current CPU only goes to full load on bootup. 

 

I dont really want to spend a fortune £300-400 $350-450 ish. what is the current recomendation for motherboard/CPU? I have a pcie card that handles my HDD's with breakout cables etc so dont need masses of sata ports on the board. is AMD capable of transcoding like quicksync? seems amd are bang for buck better off with number of cores etc?

[_cjd_]

Intel igpu may cover your transcoding needs, and the lowest power consumption builds are also Intel. AMD won't do quicksync if I remember right.

Edited June 30 by _cjd_

[Zonediver]

On 6/29/2024 at 2:56 PM, Randall8686 said:

I dont really want to spend a fortune £300-400 $350-450 ish.

 

If you want to change CPU, MoBo and RAM, you will spend "a little bit" more then 450.- 😉

And no, AMD (and NVidia too) does not support QuickSync because its an "Intel Feature" of the iGPU 👍

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

Edited July 15 by Zonediver