5hurb Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 So I am looking at changing up my hardware. Currently i7 3770k 16gb ram no gpu 10x 4TB drives etc... My server is mainly used for Plex and a windows 10VM for ISO Torrents and Blue Iris. This is starting to show its age. New Intel CPU just does not make sense when AMD can do many more cores for less cost. So I'm looking at going Ryzen 3700x and 32gb Ram on a B450. This way I can isolate/allocate cores for VM/Plex/unraid + I can play with other VM/Dockers without slowdowns or running out of Ram. iGPU with Plex is obviously not going to work anymore, can Plex transcode 1080p on the Ryzen CPU or do I need to poke a Nvidia GPU at it? If I do put a Nvidia GPU(1070 or 2060) in can I use it as a pass through to the 10 VM and do some light gaming while still being able to HW Transcode Plex? Is there any other pinch points you guys can think of before I do this? Quote Link to comment
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