How long will i7-6700 & A380 be ok

[TenOfZero]

Hi all,

I have a jellyfin server at home using an old desktop PC. It's an i7-6700 and an intel ARC A-380 for transcoding with a Samsung SSD and both 16TBs SATA HHDs and USB External HHDs.

I was wondering if I could rely on this HW to be able to support jellyfin long term or if that old CPU might soon become a bottleneck (I assume the A380 will be solid to transcode for a long time).

I'm also curious on the thought of external HHDs vs internal. The externals are often cheaper.

All this is just for one user, myself, over my local network. Should I expect this set-up to last me for a while or will the CPU become a bottle neck soon enough ?

[Fate]

I think you will be safe for a few years.

Audio transcoding is not very demanding and is rarely needed.

How many users are we talking about anyway?

[Efficient_Good_5784]

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.