Is a Pentium G5500 powerful enough for a basic media server?

[BlackBriar]

I'm looking to finally replace my 10 year old server. I only really use this as a media server with a couple of dockers - nothing fancy like VMs etc.

 

Does the Pentium G5500 (probably paired with an ASRock B360M-HDV motherboard) have enough grunt to take care of the basics? Would upgrading to a G5600 make any difference?

 

Many thanks for your time.

[pappaq]

Absolutly. The system will stand between the SOC systems like the J4105 boards and an i3 8100 performancewise. It will combine the low power consumption and the benefits of a "fullsize" platform. If you want to go crazy with many docker containers I recommend to go with 16GB RAM.

 

You won't see any difference in a reallife cenario between a G5500 and a G5600. -> https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5600-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5500/m469126vsm484140

[BlackBriar]

20 minutes ago, pappaq said:

Absolutly. The system will stand between the SOC systems like the J4105 boards and an i3 8100 performancewise. It will combine the low power consumption and the benefits of a "fullsize" platform. If you want to go crazy with many docker containers I recommend to go with 16GB RAM.

 

You won't see any difference in a reallife cenario between a G5500 and a G5600. -> https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5600-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5500/m469126vsm484140

Many thanks - that's exactly what I needed to know (and hoped for!). I think I will only use a few dockers, so will probably leave it at 8gb for now, and upgrade to more if needed further down the line.

 

Thanks again.