Why would you go for an i5 over one of the Celeron/Pentium dedicated boxes that are popular (for good reason) and extremely cheap?
Good Point. I check all the mentioned topics and I personally like the P290 but you donāt get this one in Germany. Bad Luck. Comparable models are at ca. 340ā¬ even at eBay. With the other systems it is like with the P290.
If I build it by my own the i5 setup is at ca. 350ā¬. If I change to a Intel 6500 its at 280ā¬
And I can use a Case where I can use my blu ray driverā¦
Do you see any real advance for my use case for the Nvidia card vs. an iGPU 630?
Hi.
I have a question that may not fit here, but I will ask anyway.
Does someone have some experience with ffmpeg? Particularly ffmpeg encoding via QSV for 4K HEVC video maintaining HDR metadata.
I do have some experience with ffmpeg 4K HDR HEVC encoding but not combined with QSV. Iām interested in getting an Intel CPU on a new Linux build to encode a complete personal video library. But I canāt seems to find many examples and documentation is lacking. My library already exists on a separate machine (a Synology NAS with a 10G NIC) so this new server will only be used to run a few dockers at a time + ffmpeg video encoding.
Thanks
Is the multi tasking nas build still recommended or is there a newer build. Looking for unraid with Plex, and associated download dockers, and a few Wordpress dockers. Transcode no more than 3 streams. Thanks
Iām also looking to find out if the multi-tasking build still relevant. I have a Dell T30 running unraid that Iām looking to replace. Gonna set the old one up at my parents home.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Yes, itās still relevant.
About to build the multi-task nas. However, I found an Asus z390-p for $40. Should I go for this? Or stick with z-370p I purchased for $80?
Either one will be totally fine.
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OFF TOPIC - Sorry to hijack your coolest thread yetā¦
I Need Help.
I have a weird question because this is like the one build thing I cannot troubleshoot.
I got my hands on a nice HP S01 pf1013 and went to town on it right away, using most of your suggestions to prepare it to be my dedicated Plex machine.
BUT. The Bios on this machine is the absolute worst piece of fw Iāve ever tried to use. Iāve read a ton of your stuff on the S01 but havenāt seen anything about the BIOS, so that is making me even more confused. Hereās my problem(s).
When I put in the nVME drive I could not get the machine to boot from USB no matter what I tried, which was pretty much everything out of the options on that boot. Thereās literally nothing more than 5 or 6 things to change.
I have a great clean Windows 10 image that I wanted to use, but after almost 2 days of endless searching online, I just gave up and dealt with the (reasonable) amount of bloatware I had to trash.
But of course I wasnāt aware that I need Ubuntu 20.04 to actually get performance out of this machine until I read more of your stuff.
I use linux and have no problem installing, but Iām dreading even attempting it again because I failed so miserably last time.
I think Iāve flashed the OS on every (non mac) system Iāve owned at some point, and this is the first time a computer would simply not recognize the USB. No matter how I ordered the boot, it wouldnāt find the USB. I probably tried every BIOS config and all 8 USB ports.
Have you heard of anyone ever having an experience similar to this?
I didnāt take any pictures of the BIOS. Because it was ugly. Just ghoulish. But I can snap some if anyone might be able to help.
swissp, for your bios problems, i donāt have the HP specifically, but you probably have to do a few things to boot of a USB
- disable secure boot
- disable fast boot
- make sure your USB is formatted in UEFI mode
- alternately, find a ālegacyā or CSM boot option in the HP bios
- manually add a new boot option to the boot order list in the bios.
you might get more help in the s01 thread.
and, regarding QSV machineā¦ I ended up doing something like this. I sidegraded, went from a Xeon E5-2680v4 to a gutted a Dell Precisions motherboard with a I7-7700K.
The main reason was to attempt to reduce power consumption (which is did but only liek 110W to 90W) but it also has the integrated quick sync which emby can use pretty successfully. I donāt need a dummy plug, although my linux pass through VM doesnāt have a working āmaster consoleā in esxi any more, I need to ssh.