April 30Apr 30 It's served me well, but with Frigate I've seen the limitations of my J4105. It also struggled occasionally with some transcoding in Jellyfin. So I started looking to upgrade, and at first I was set on a 12600K or something like that, since I'd seen that the UHD770 is good. But after looking into it further, I thought, and if I want to future-proof my system with AV1, NPU... I think the following components will be good: Asus Prime Z890M-PLUS WIFI (6 SATA ports) Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Corsair Vengeance DDR5 16GB (2x8GB) 5200MHz CL40 What do you think? Any incompatibilities? Thank you very much.
May 1May 1 Check if anyone has had issues with the MB chipset you're looking at. Same with CPU and Memory. I just repurposed my 10 year old Dell laptop (Latitude 7390, 8gig ram, i5-8350U cpu, busted screen) to be my Frigate NVR. I'm running 6 cameras (2x 1080, 4x 4K) with a Coral TPU and the Intel UHD620 iGPU. I mapped shares from my Unraid server to the laptop (using NFS) for storage needs. No issues, detections working great, notifications being sent. I had thought about buying something, but thought I'd give this a try. Glad I did, and doubly so, because the iGPU in my server can stay dedicated to Plex. Edited May 1May 1 by whipdancer
May 1May 1 Author Thanks for your review.I discard the Coral option. So I think I need a powerful iGPU, I don't want to buy a processor and find out it falls short.Thanks for comment!
May 26May 26 On 4/30/2026 at 6:30 PM, Nelo3D said:It's served me well, but with Frigate I've seen the limitations of my J4105. It also struggled occasionally with some transcoding in Jellyfin. So I started looking to upgrade, and at first I was set on a 12600K or something like that, since I'd seen that the UHD770 is good. But after looking into it further, I thought, and if I want to future-proof my system with AV1, NPU... I think the following components will be good: Asus Prime Z890M-PLUS WIFI (6 SATA ports) Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Corsair Vengeance DDR5 16GB (2x8GB) 5200MHz CL40 What do you think? Any incompatibilities? Thank you very much.FYI: The old 12 series CPUs cant encode AV1 - only the new Core Ultra (S1851) can handle this (if transcoding is an option for the future).So the 245K is the better choice. Edited May 26May 26 by Zonediver
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