July 26, 20241 yr Hey everyone! Doing a clear out of some old things and decided to get into Plex to free up some space. I've got it mostly working on my main PC as a test and I just want to see what I'd need to build a decent little server which can do 4k HDR for probably about 5 people. I luckily have an Arc A310 lying around which looks decent for transcoding and I assume better than a CPU atleast. Other than that I'm not sure what CPU to go for. I've also heard a lot about "C states" which I assume is something i'll want to investigate more. I'm also going to assume looking at Linux would be a better option over windows / debloated windows? Any pointers would be wonderful! Thanks!
August 1, 20241 yr Plex doesn't fully support Arc yet for hardware transcoding, although there is work being done on this. If all your clients can display and want to receive 4K video then you don't need to do any transcoding at all. If you do need to do some transcoding, then get yourself a Raptor Lake Intel CPU. Their transcoding performance is far better than you'd think, and they'll do so more efficiently than any GPU. I have a 10th gen i3 (i3-10100) on the server that I run Emby on and it can do 2 or 3 real time 4K transcodes. An 13th gen i7 can do a dozen or two.
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