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Hardware queries - jozhlogg - 2024-04-14
So, I'm looking at setting up a Jellyfin server soon using hardware from my old PC. That's currently a i3-9100f and an AMD RX580 8GB. I've seen that I can trade in both my CPU and GPU for an i5-9600k and was wondering which would be the better bet for jellyfin? Do I need more CPU power or is a dGPU worth having? My other thoughts also was that just the CPU would use less power than having the GPU installed. Any thoughts?
RE: Hardware queries - gnattu - 2024-04-14
> AMD RX580 8GB
Avoid this. AMD encoders this gen has very bad quality and you probably won't like it.
> Do I need more CPU power or is a dGPU worth having?
It depends. If you are doing HDR->SDR tone mapping a lot, then you may consider a dGPU as the iGPUs may have performance issues on 4K videos. If you don't, get a modern CPU with iGPU will be good enough.
RE: Hardware queries - jozhlogg - 2024-04-14
Great, thanks. Looks like it's time to retire the 580 now!