Using an i5 760 as home server

Zairs · 17 Mar 2016 at 14:38

I'm just upgrading my rig to an i7 6700k system, which leaves me my old system, I was thinking of using it as a home server which I can access from a few computers and ps3's. Want to store photos and films, Also want it running raid 1.
Would the i5 760 be a good choice or is there a better way of doing it?

Buffalo2102 · 18 Mar 2016 at 14:55

It's real overkill for what you need and, considering that you will likely have it on 24/7, will be a relatively expensive option in terms of power. The i5 760 is rated at 95W, whereas my AMD 5350 doing a similar job is rated at 25W.

If you are happy paying for the leccy though, it'll be fine.

MG42Maniac · 18 Mar 2016 at 15:57

Go for it, I've got a i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz acting as a file/Plex server - does a great job.

Steveocee · 18 Mar 2016 at 21:14

Buffalo2102 said:
It's real overkill for what you need and, considering that you will likely have it on 24/7, will be a relatively expensive option in terms of power. The i5 760 is rated at 95W, whereas my AMD 5350 doing a similar job is rated at 25W.

If you are happy paying for the leccy though, it'll be fine.

However the i5 won't be doing 95w flat out all the time. Your i5 is probably a little power hungry in comparison but it won't struggle transcoding stuff at least which is a problem you get if you go for a ~~weak~~ more efficient CPU

BlizzardX · 20 Mar 2016 at 10:01

With intel speed step, it should basically drop down to its lowest multipliers when idle; my Supermicro Xeon Westmere setup consumes 80w for everything in the server; which is motherboard, 32GB ram, HDDs and single xeon... Intel really did improve efficiency with the Nahelems onwards.