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The GPU is definitely overkill.  The entire Arc lineup has the same media engine. The only thing that the additional VRAM gets you is a few more tone mapped HDR streams since tone mapping is very VRAM heavy.  The 6GB Arc A380 can handle about 6 tone mapped HDR transcodes.  If that is sufficient for your use case, definitely get a lower end Arc GPU.  The 750W PSU is also overkill.  ~500W is probably a better choice for this PC.

For the case, I like Fractal Design.  Well built, have a lot of quality of life features that make building in them easy, etc.

For the rest of your specs, this should work fine.  6 cores is enough to host quite a few other services.

Thanks for the feedback, many of the choices I made were based off replies you made to others asking similar questions. Unfortunately 650W is the best I can find for something modular, try to avoid extra cables if I can.
I am curious as to what case you run as I don't recall seeing you mention it elsewhere.

Reckon I'll upgrade to a Meteor lake NUC when they become available. Asus have one on their website but not shipping yet.

https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/n...uc-14-pro/

Very low power consumption and with an Arc GPU should have good transcoding ability.

Really, anything fairly modern will work fine for you.

There are a few short comings with NUCs.

You have limited, and slow, VRAM. Which is important for HDR tone mapping.
All hard drives have to be external USB or on a NAS.
No upgradability.
Expensive for the specs.

If you don't need the super small form factor, they are not very appealing.

Agreed, if it weren't for the variable resolutions I transcode I'd probably build something really similar to a NUC but additionally one of the issues I have is my external hard drive sleeping even though I've set the headers on my laptop to not sleep which can cause play back issues occasionally which is a little extra fuel to the fire to build a dedicated rig.

I've updated the list with the recommended info and also pushed the motherboard down to ITX to fit in a smaller form factor,  I figure the node 304 should be sufficient and a lot of the reviews are good aside from some bemoaning old designs regarding some aspects about fans and drive trays.

Thanks again for the replies.