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I'm looking to upgrade my Plex and game server. I currently have an i5-4690K with 16 GB DDR3 and it's struggling a lot. My PSU is a 850W gold rated EVGA from 2017 so I don't think it needs upgraded quite yet since I've been way under the wattage for most of its life.

I was looking at something like a 13400 but I'm not sure if it's the best choice or what to pair it with.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Intel's not good for power efficiency. Id recommend any old entry level b550 AM4 motherboard, drop a ryzen 5600x in it, buy 32 gigs of dirt cheap DDR4. You'll be out the door $250 and be in amazing shape using half the power of Intel's hungry 13th gen 14nm+++++++++. If you wanna spend a little more get a 5800x for 2 more cores. It'll handle all your server stuff no sweat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No Quicksync with AMD which means you're stuck on CPU transcoding, and much higher power usage for that.

For comparison a 7th gen and up Intel iGPU with quicksync can do something like 20-30 1080p Plex transcodes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you buy a 5600G instead ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It looks like it can handle a couple transcodes maybe on Plex, personally I would go Intel for something like this. Their lower power CPUs are very efficient for idle usage.

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