Unraid upgrade from A10 7860K to ???? - £200?

[Conan257]

Been using this setup for a long time, generally works fine but I'm sure I'd notice an increase in performance if I upgraded. Just noticed the CPU is sitting at around 76C without the server doing much, so at best I need to take it all apart, at worst its time to upgrade.

I suspect the value is in buying 2nd hand, but maybe a 10400F + Mobo + 16gb would come in budget?

 

[Armageus]

For £200 you can actually do a new build that is faster than a 10400F (and over 5 times faster than your 7860K!):

AMD A10-7860K vs Ryzen 5 4500 vs Ryzen 3 4100 vs Intel i5-10400F [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

www.cpubenchmark.net

Worth noting that with either a 10400F or any of the non-APU Ryzen chips you will need a separate graphics card (unlike your current 7860K)


My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B550M DS3H (AMD AM4) B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BR-GI) = £89.99
• 1 x Lexar Hades 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (SKU: MY-019-LE) = £37.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 4500 Six Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3D4-AM) = £74.99

Total: £202.97 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

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[Conan257]

Kudos for picking a matx board which I'll need to fit in the Node804....

Now i'm on the conversation, I believe the reason I was thinking of Intel was due to it being a better fit with Plex.....

 

[Armageus]

Kudos for picking a matx board which I'll need to fit in the Node804....

Purely the fact it was the cheapest board available on OcUK

Now i'm on the conversation, I believe the reason I was thinking of Intel was due to it being a better fit with Plex.....

Intel's integrated graphics (included on all CPUs other than F models) is a decent option for Plex hardware transcoding. If you don't have hardware transcoding (either this or normally an NVIDIA Graphics card), then transcoding is done in software using the CPU cores.

Note that transcoding is only normally needed if the device playing media can't cope with the format supplied - if you've been managing fine with a 7860K then I'd suggest it's not a must have.

 

[Conan257]

Probably the case, and the extra grunt from a 4500 would likely bridge that gap in the event I do have an issue in the future (had a couple of problems with "not enough processing power" error codes, but I believe that was a glitch rather than an actual cpu problem).

Thanks for the tips!

 

[Conan257]

Black Friday came around and I've got a 5600X, B550 motherboard and 32gb RAM on the way... should be a nice upgrade!

I wonder if there's any unraid benchmarks....