January 18, 201610 yr So I have my unraid running as a Nas, with Sonarr, CouchPotato, SABnzb and Plex server. It is running on an i7 860 at the moment which is working great, but I have a G3258 over clocked to 4.5ghz here that I am thinking about putting in it? Would it be worth swapping over?? I don't have plans to stream any more than 2 at once, and don't have very much HD content even, mostly DVDrips and SDTV so both have plenty of 'Passmarks' in that regard. I figure the pentium would just be a lot more efficient. but not sure if the multi threaded i7 would be more flexible going forward if I want to run VMs or something. Replacing would also require a new cpu and mobo in my PC, so might just wait till I find a game that actually NEEDS quadcore. Cheers
January 18, 201610 yr Keep the i7. It has more cores which will aid VM's performance, but more importantly, it supports VT-d, required to pass a video card to a VM.
January 18, 201610 yr Yes, keep the i7. The Pentium is a nice entry level processor for NAS duties but VMs and multiple streams want more CPU than that.
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