handbrake4life

Have used ffmpeg as well so that's def an option. Looking to do 1080 AND 4K at 30-70mbps, generally at slowest presets and 20-40fps. How much worse is video quality with nvenc?

Hey, I'm thinking of building a computer to run a Plex server and a samba share on my local network. I will also be using it as a transcoding box, both occasionally through Plex but more commonly through handbrake as I get new media. I need something that can comfortably handle 50-80mbps 10bit h.265 footage in handbrake, but am unsure exactly how much CPU i'll need for that. I assume 16GB of memory will be fine, but I'm also hoping that someone can illuminate whether a GPU would increase transcoding speed at all. I don't do much editing so I'm not worried about needing to throw large videos around a timeline, but if I can get some extra speed for 265 processing or something, i would def put a GPU in. Any help is appreciated!