I can get a Dell Precision T5600 with dual Xeon E5-2660 v2 for ~$800 CAD or build a headless i7-8700k for that.
The main uses are:
>Streaming a mix of 1080p and 4k both locally and remotely (transcoding) to 2 - 3 clients at a time
>retro game server
I'm planning to run Hypervisor and probably use a mix of linux and windows where it's best. I read that multi-core is advantageous for many simultaneous users while single streams benefit from single core, is that right and can anyone clarify?
This is babbys first home server and any feedback is appreciated
>get a gun and blast your brains out already tried that but I couldn't figure out how to work it guns are so stoopid
Landon Collins
I don't think the T5600's were v2's.
Jace Brown
Then take $200 off the xeon build and put in a non-v2 cpu with a lower passmark. Is it generally better to go for an older xeon build with more cores for this use case or newer?
I built a plex server that's also a torrent box with stuff to auto torrent after requesting it. I'm running ubuntu because I tried with containerising everything to learn that too, but I fucked everything up and connecting all the containers together was a headache.
Pretty much everything that I use was more happy to be installed on a Windows machine, so if I did this again, I'd probably just roll windows. I probably wouldn't bother with multiple OSes, sounds like you'll just be killing disc space and you'll only ever use one OS or another. For the build, Plex doesn't really require that much power unless you're doing a lot of transcoding, so I run an i3 and it copes just fine, the only issue is the network speed. Your retro game server, depending on if it needs to be able to run anything 3D (n64), then you probably want to go for an i5 at least. Also I'd recommend looking into Plex Requests, linked to Sonarr and Radarr, with Jackett as your indexer and transmission for your torrents.
Angel Walker
TRANSCODING MORE LIKE TRANNYCOCKDICK.
Jaxson Sanders
>babbys baby's
Levi Stewart
just buy a used or off lease dell optiplex with i7. 2600k or 3770 routinely go for $100-120. I picked up a i7 6700 optiplex for $300.
Michael Clark
streaming 2-3 clients isn't demanding. even transcoding 2-3 can be done on fairly old hardware (like first gen i5). focus more of your budget towards storage like a separate expandable NAS to work in conjunction with your plex server.
For a home media server i think minimising the power requirements should be a goal, running something power hungry is fairly uneconomical.
Caleb Phillips
Not OP. I have all my Blu-ray rips encoded at a high bitrate. When one of my kids streams a movie to there tablet at a friends house you bet your ass it's transcoded. Why would you stream high bitrate movies across the net to phones and tablets? Or even to TVs if you don't have a good internet connection or need to worry about data caps.
Juan Gray
Interesting build idea, have you done this before? Seems very custom I've been searching on ebay but the biggest factor for me is shipping to Canada. In my area I occasionally see deals locally but not many Okay I'll look into pre-encoding please excuse my lack of experience/ignorance I'll look into emby as well No shipping to Canada unfortunately >but I fucked everything up and connecting all the containers together was a headache Sorry but I need to try for myself because I know lots of people do this for their homelabs and it's something I want to learn. >if it needs to be able to run anything 3D (n64), then you probably want to go for an i5 at least. That's the only one I plan to emulate so yeah I'll look at beefier cpus for that reason and future proofing/expansion >babbys you haven't seen this here before? Maybe it's dying from when I last frequented Jow Forums I'll consider this as well, thank you user thanks for the advice It is the goal, I'm heavily biased to towers for that reason and lack of space
Jonathan Flores
Plex actually runs best on Windows anyway as the hardware accelerated transcoding using your GFX is only available in it and not Linux currently.
Kayden Morales
There is a T3600 hex core e5 in Canada on ebay, all you have to do is swap in an 8-12 core e5/e7.
Brody Scott
>using software that aggressively tries to prevent ptracing
