Hello there everyone. I am about to splurge on a new NUC to build out my new Plex server. I am going to definitely have multiple 1080p streams going at once because I share this server with friends. The two NUCs I am looking at have an i7-10750H Intel chip (6 cores) and i9-9880H (8 cores). There’s very little difference in cost between the two NUCs. Either one I choose will have a 1 TB SSD and 32 GB of RAM. I am struggling to choose between them. What would you all recommend?
The i7 has a passmark of 12556 and the i9 has a passmark of 13971, so I’d go for the i9…
i7: PassMark - Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz - Price performance comparison
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However, the the i7 has a higher single thread rating. If you are only serving one or a few streams at once, I’d prefer the i7.
Keep in mind that in the Laptop form factor you might not be able to sustain the top performance of the CPU for hours on end. The cooling system of many laptops simply cannot handle continuous CPU load at 100%.
So the CPU might throttle itself due to too high temperatures.
Not so sure that would be important, if you have enabled hardware transcoding. The iGPU would handle that quite nicely, regardless of which chip you go for.
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