I currently have a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU with an ASRock AB3540M PRO4 MicroATX and 16GB of Ram

 

My server keeps becoming unresponsive and requiring me to hard reboot.   I think its because the CPU is maxing out.

 

I am running plex SABNZDB, Sonarr and Radarr on it. 

 

So im thinking of getting 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 Ten-Core Haswell Processor 2.3GHz CPUs but need some advice on what dual CPU MB would be good to match with it that wont break the bank. 

 

Appreciate the help

I am debating the same thing now.

 

Upgrade to either AM4 Ryzen 3900 or qty 2 Intel xeon E5-2650V2.

 

This MB looks like a good option: GA-7PESH2

This can't be right, I had a G2020 with those apps (emby instead of plex). I ran up to 2 transcodes at the same time without issues.

The Ryzen 5 1600 is way more powerful....Could there be something else going on? something that causes pauses? Have you tried isolating the docker apps to only some of the cores and reserve a single core to always be open to handle unraid?

I just built a similar system except I used E5-2680v3.  So far it has been good. The IOMMU grouping is pretty good out of the box and I can use my GPU in the plex container without issues. 

 

I have had one time that samba went unresponsive, but I'm hoping that isn't a common occurrence.  I do wish the board had IPMI, but it isn't a deal breaker for me.

 

 

 

FYI..in the logs I saw an error saying Unraid didnt support the 1600 CPU.  So its probably not something to do with the actual processing power but just a compatibility with that version of Ryzen.  I upgraded to a  Ryzen 2600x and the issue went away.  Unraid server no longer hanging.