2024-08-08, 10:13 AM
Usually, your tech doesn't get slow over time. What happens is that as time passes, developers make games & programs that are more demanding than before, leaving older hardware to feel like it slowed down due to age.
Your Arc GPU has support for most of the current popular codecs, it will only need to be upgraded if a new codec drops in the future that you can't use with the GPU.
As for performance, if it works fine now, it will work fine in the long future as long as you keep using similar-enough videos as well.
Basically, until your video demands increase in a way that the GPU can't handle or if it breaks, will you need to upgrade.
As for the CPU, strictly talking about video transcoding, audio transcoding happens on the CPU. Audio is very easy to transcode, so you don't need the most modern CPU. If you're burning-in subtitles to the video, some of that work also falls on the CPU, so that will need to be taken into account.
You should be looking at upgrading the CPU if there's not enough of it free enough to handle Jellyfin. Maybe the OS you have is putting a heavy load on the CPU, or you have other programs running on it. If so, that would be another reason to upgrade.
Your Arc GPU has support for most of the current popular codecs, it will only need to be upgraded if a new codec drops in the future that you can't use with the GPU.
As for performance, if it works fine now, it will work fine in the long future as long as you keep using similar-enough videos as well.
Basically, until your video demands increase in a way that the GPU can't handle or if it breaks, will you need to upgrade.
As for the CPU, strictly talking about video transcoding, audio transcoding happens on the CPU. Audio is very easy to transcode, so you don't need the most modern CPU. If you're burning-in subtitles to the video, some of that work also falls on the CPU, so that will need to be taken into account.
You should be looking at upgrading the CPU if there's not enough of it free enough to handle Jellyfin. Maybe the OS you have is putting a heavy load on the CPU, or you have other programs running on it. If so, that would be another reason to upgrade.