Hardware review

[Ila_S]

Hi! I'm new to media servers in general, but I'm long overdue to buy one and I finally have the cash available.

I'm planning on building a new computer mainly for Jellyfin and torreting, and I'm thinking of some hardware like:

- Intel Core i3-14100F (It's only 20 bucks more than the 13100F)
- Intel Arc AXX (I'm unsure if there is a differece for transcoding between them)
- 2 x 8GB DDR4 3200
- Some Micro ATX motherboard with a H610 Chipset
- Some 80PLUS Gold power supply
- Some M.2 SSD to store OS and Jellyfin
- 4 x Seagate IronWolf HDD of 4TB
- SilverStone CS382

There should be 2 to 3 users for Jellyfin and I would need to transfer ~6TB of media from my PC. I would happly accept recommendations and changes to my build.

I'm planning to spend ~1500USD on it.

[TheDreadPirate]

All good choices......and not because they are mostly identical to my setup.  

The entire Arc line up has the same media engine and number of media engines.  So getting an A770 will not make a difference over the A310.  Where things change is tone mapping, which is VRAM intensive.  The A380 is a good middle ground.  The 6GB of VRAM can handle 5-6 tone mapped transcodes.  For plain transcoding, my testing resulted in about 20 simultaneous transcodes.