ninjaneer68 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Hello everyone I am new to UNraid and wanted to get some opnions from everyone A friend gave me the following hardware to get started and I have a questions if I updated the CPU if everyone things I would get a big performance change currently I am running the following dockers, Plex, NZBget, Sonarr/Radarr with the following CPU / motherboard and the CPU maxes out on a regular basis memory - 16GB : (4) HyperX Fury 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4 2400MHz DRAM Processor - Intel BX80662G4400 Pentium Processor G4400 3.3 GHz Power Supply - Rosewill Quark Series 750W Full Modular Gaming Power Supply 80 Plus Platinum Motherboard : MSI Z170A GAMING M7 ATX DDR4 3000 (o.c.) NA Motherboards Z170A GAMING M7 If I upgrade to the following CPU will I see a big performance difference ? Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00 GHz Unlocked Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151 [BX80662I76700K] by Intel I appreciate any feedback Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 38 minutes ago, sstretchh said: Hello everyone I am new to UNraid and wanted to get some opnions from everyone A friend gave me the following hardware to get started and I have a questions if I updated the CPU if everyone things I would get a big performance change currently I am running the following dockers, Plex, NZBget, Sonarr/Radarr with the following CPU / motherboard and the CPU maxes out on a regular basis memory - 16GB : (4) HyperX Fury 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4 2400MHz DRAM Processor - Intel BX80662G4400 Pentium Processor G4400 3.3 GHz Power Supply - Rosewill Quark Series 750W Full Modular Gaming Power Supply 80 Plus Platinum Motherboard : MSI Z170A GAMING M7 ATX DDR4 3000 (o.c.) NA Motherboards Z170A GAMING M7 If I upgrade to the following CPU will I see a big performance difference ? Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00 GHz Unlocked Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151 [BX80662I76700K] by Intel I appreciate any feedback I cannot comment on the processor you currently have but I can tell you that my primary unRAID box is built around my I7 6700 non K and it performs excellent and I work it hard, its my Plex media server, my home assistant sever, and running upwards of 12 dockers and still has plenty of room in the tank Quote Link to comment
ninjaneer68 Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 that is good to know !! thanks for sharing, I will work on upgrading my processer. See below, this is CPU being idle, when i screen shot this none of the dockers where doing anything Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Yeah you'll have considerably a higher performance running machine by upgrading I didn't realize that cpu was only dual core with no hyper threading it will be like night and day! Quote Link to comment
ninjaneer68 Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 I wanted to come back and share, thank you for the suggestions everyone. I updated the motherboard and CPU. Your right, it is night and day !! Quote Link to comment
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