I recently purchased a computer on mercari and I'm going to use it to set up my old unraid set up Just swap drives over just to swap the oil on right over to a new case with better cooling. I was curious if it is worth it to keep the Nvidia card in or not. I only use it for Plex. I don't use it for anything else. I don't really have any any coding issues because everything just plays straight and I'm only using a one TV

Here are the specs:

Specs:
▪︎Processor (CPU): Intel Core i7-3770 (Flagship quad-core, 8 threads, 3.40 GHz base / 3.90 GHz Turbo)
▪︎Memory (RAM): 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (4x4GB matching kit w/prem heat spreaders)
▪︎Motherboard: Intel Desktop Board DH77EB Media Series (Micro-ATX, high stability, onboard USB 3.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, & mSATA)
▪︎CPU Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series All-In-1Liquid Cooler
▪︎Case Exhaust: Premium Noctua silent fan
▪︎Optical Storage: Dual Internal Samsung BluRay Disc Drives
▪︎Power Supply: Corsair CX430M 430W Semi-Modular PSU
▪︎Storage Expansion: Massive modular internal drive bay up to 8 drives.

Geforce 750TI video card

This is just a copy from from the website. Ignore the blueberry players. I'm going to rip those out and put a a three cage in for the drives in the two 5.25 slots

Edited August 26Aug 26 by Southbark

And in case you're wondering, I paid $350 for the whole thing plus tax

22 hours ago, Southbark said:

Geforce 750TI video card

This GPU is basically worthless for transcoding. Nvidia has End Of Life support for cards Pascal and older.

Is there any good card recommendations I could replace it with to transcoding for plex.

My opinion is the Nvidia RTX A400 is the best value for transcoding video for a typical home video server. New is as low as $200 USD, used and open-box easily found for less. Single slot, 50W max power and gets all of its power from the PCIe slot (no extra power cable).

I replaced the Quadro P400 in my server not long ago with the RTX A400, as Nvidia is no longer supporting the Pascal based cards in their drivers. This eventually trickles down to applications as well, when a product has reached End Of Life. There is the Quadro T400 that was released between the P400 and A400, but it won't be too long before that is EOL as well. The pricing between the T400 and A400 (comparing 4GB cards) are about the same, so the RTX A400 is the best value.

Edited August 30Aug 30 by ConnerVT
speeling

https://a.co/d/04yvkUnu

Something like this one

10 hours ago, Southbark said:

Something like this one

Yes. There are a number of them on eBay that can save you some $$$. Open box and even used are pretty low risk, especially if you buy from a high(er) volume seller. Many times these are cards included with systems to business clients that were immediately upgraded, and even used cards were normally lightly used, as no one is mining crypto with these.