I currently have a 6 year old (or older) server using AMD 2700x CPU and a ASRock X370 Professional motherboard and a Quadra 2000.  At the time I purchased it because it supported 8 Sata drives and used a lot of smaller size drives.  I now have 4 HDD 18TB and two NVME. I primarily use it for plex, file storage and perhaps a VM every now and then.  Ideally, I would like the ability to add at least one more HDD. The current system pulls 75-100w all of the time. Which seems silly.   I have notice that plex sometimes drags now as I have a large collection.

 

I would like to move to an intel CPU with transcoding to ditch the GPU and get something that will be more power efficient.  Its been a long time since I built a system and I am overwhelmed by the combinations.   Looking for motherboard and CPU ideas.  While not required - wouldn't mind getting a smaller case I have the silverstone 380 ATX case with lots of bay.

 

Thank you so much for your time in reading and answering this!

Edited December 8, 20241 yr by dubbly
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I would look at doing the Ultra 7 265k or the 12 gen i7 or even the 13-14gen i7 will do great. The new 15th gen supports av1.

I'm still waiting on CPU to assemble but I think I took a power surge and have instability in my amd (x570-d4u 5600x) and decided reluctantly to try Intel - though I'll use the igpu for llms not transcoding (not tequired here).

Went asus ws-680-ace ipmi, 14500 for cpu, 64gb ecc. My amd idled around 41w, hoping this'll do better. 5x hdd, 2 ssd, 1 m.2, x710-da2 nic sfp+/dac (on oard ethernet ignored, can't disable).