Home Server Help

[ItsFluffyMexican]

Hey all!

 

I want to build a small capacity home server just to see if this is something worth to upgrade later or not. I have an older R7 1700x and Crosshair VI mobo to use. 

 

I need a GPU for it to display but would I need a decent spec card if I use the server as a Media Plex server or would just a cheap gpu be fine?

 

I don't really know much about how the display works with servers (I never had one). 

 

Thanks for any help peeps!

[Mario5]

i think a gt 1030 2gb GDDR5 should do the job.

[tikker]

41 minutes ago, ItsFluffyMexican said:

would I need a decent spec card if I use the server as a Media Plex server or would just a cheap gpu be fine?

Depends. Do you plan on transcoding at all and, if so, leverage hardware transcoding?

[ItsFluffyMexican]

20 minutes ago, tikker said:

Depends. Do you plan on transcoding at all and, if so, leverage hardware transcoding?

I don't think I would be transcoding anything. It's mainly going to be to save photos and archive my YT uploads. Would the uploads be why I might need to transcode?

[ItsFluffyMexican]

44 minutes ago, Mario5 said:

i think a gt 1030 2gb GDDR5 should do the job.

Yeah I was honestly looking g at something like that or the AMD equivalent whichever it is I could find.

[tikker]

28 minutes ago, ItsFluffyMexican said:

I don't think I would be transcoding anything. It's mainly going to be to save photos and archive my YT uploads. Would the uploads be why I might need to transcode?

If streaming to places outside your house then yes that is a factor. Another factor, also for streaming in-home, is whether the playback device supports the codecs of the material Plex is serving up. If not, it will also transcode.

[ItsFluffyMexican]

Just now, tikker said:

If streaming to places outside your house then yes that is a factor. Another factor, also for streaming in-home, is whether the playback device supports the codecs of the material Plex is serving up. If not, it will also transcode.

Gotcha that helps a lot. I really don't plan on streaming outside my house that I could think of. I am waiting to build the server to get money for the other parts so I might even upgrade my current 1660 super to a new AMD card so I could always use the 1660 for the server should I do that.

 

Thanks for the insight!

[tikker]

26 minutes ago, ItsFluffyMexican said:

Gotcha that helps a lot. I really don't plan on streaming outside my house that I could think of. I am waiting to build the server to get money for the other parts so I might even upgrade my current 1660 super to a new AMD card so I could always use the 1660 for the server should I do that.

 

Thanks for the insight!

Keep in mind that for hardware transcoding (i.e. GPU transcoding) you need the paid Plex Pass. Free account only offers CPU transcoding.

[LogicalDrm]

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