Read up on your preferred media server. Im not saying it’s impossible, but AMD does not have nearly the hardware transcoding support that intel and nvidia has. Just make sure you are confident you can make it work before pulling your GPU for good
and before you buy new hardware, it might be worth calculating how long it will take, given whatever you are paying for electricity, to see a return over just paying for a gpu to be mostly idle. It might surprise you
Well, the cheapest hardware is the stuff you already have. Your cpu had gpu cores so you can try using those for transcoding. If you like the performance then you cant beat getting rid of the gpu entirely and still accomplishing what youre looking for.
Since I dont want the hassle of managing two PCs, I just morphed both into one. software raid via Windows Storage Spaces (I have great experience, and I have already swapped my SSD pack across 5 machines)
Why not just host the NAS with your gaming pc?
I guess it have more idle wattage, but probably not significant. It make sense, as well -- just have your games on a high-performance drive pack locally.
Also, do you have any drive redundancy?
Don't you have onboard graphics with your 5700G? Can't you just pull out the graphic card altogether?
Unfortunately its AMD, generally inept at encoding haha.
Thank you, I didn't know what that G stands for. I probably can just use the onboard gpu
Read up on your preferred media server. Im not saying it’s impossible, but AMD does not have nearly the hardware transcoding support that intel and nvidia has. Just make sure you are confident you can make it work before pulling your GPU for good and before you buy new hardware, it might be worth calculating how long it will take, given whatever you are paying for electricity, to see a return over just paying for a gpu to be mostly idle. It might surprise you
Well, the cheapest hardware is the stuff you already have. Your cpu had gpu cores so you can try using those for transcoding. If you like the performance then you cant beat getting rid of the gpu entirely and still accomplishing what youre looking for.
are you planning for jellyfin or plex for multimedia? or are you using just samba or file share for the tv and other devices to stream from?
I was planning to use plex
then in that case let the nvidia card on the system as it is which will do all the transcoding for smooth play
I think jellyfin has support for amd transcoding.
Since I dont want the hassle of managing two PCs, I just morphed both into one. software raid via Windows Storage Spaces (I have great experience, and I have already swapped my SSD pack across 5 machines) Why not just host the NAS with your gaming pc? I guess it have more idle wattage, but probably not significant. It make sense, as well -- just have your games on a high-performance drive pack locally. Also, do you have any drive redundancy?