Going to be selling my dual E5 setup (putting the $ towards a new gaming computer) but I still would like some sort of plex box setup. Problem is I have a bunch of CPU’s but limited motherboards.
My server consists of all Blu-ray rips from my collection with no additional compression so most of these are ~25GB and ~30mbit so it can be pretty cpu intensive.
I do have an L5520 Xeon + a motherboard ready to go but I’m not sure if that’s enough? The most I have ever seen was 4 people but usually not more than 2.
I also have a L5638 but the motherboard above wont accept it. I also have an ES E5-2660 (but no motherboard). X58 and X79 boards seem to be crazy expensive these days
An estimated guess would be that the L5520 will not be able to transcode more than 1 file of such high bitrate (and that is just taking bitrate into account, if it is VC1, you add a subtitle then it perhaps won’t even be able todo that). The rough ballpark figure of 2k benchmark number is for a 1080p 10Mbit file, and that CPU has a benchmark number of 4k.
@Peter_W said:
An estimated guess would be that the L5520 will not be able to transcode more than 1 file of such high bitrate (and that is just taking bitrate into account, if it is VC1, you add a subtitle then it perhaps won’t even be able todo that). The rough ballpark figure of 2k benchmark number is for a 1080p 10Mbit file, and that CPU has a benchmark number of 4k.
There are definitely some VC1 files in there, almost none of them have subtitles though.
With regards to the suggested passmark scores, any thoughts as if the score scales linearly with bitrate? IE if 10mbit requres 2k, then 30 requires 6k?
I had thought about re-encoding my movies (to a more reasonable bit-rate)but at nearly 700 it would take quite a while
I may just have to hunt around for a board for one of my E5-2660s (need a single socket, ATX)
It doesn’t scale quite as rapid as that, I do think you’d be able to get 1 transcode out of that CPU but VC1 might struggle (though you might not see too terrible since it’s a 2 core CPU and with VC1 it’s benchmark/core that matters the most). There are batch-script created by people on the forum than can mass-convert files, but it would still take time yes. I’d at least strongly recommend to reencode the VC1 files at least, Plex really doesn’t like them at all and many CPU’s struggles with them.
@Peter_W said:
It doesn’t scale quite as rapid as that, I do think you’d be able to get 1 transcode out of that CPU but VC1 might struggle (though you might not see too terrible since it’s a 2 core CPU and with VC1 it’s benchmark/core that matters the most). There are batch-script created by people on the forum than can mass-convert files, but it would still take time yes. I’d at least strongly recommend to reencode the VC1 files at least, Plex really doesn’t like them at all and many CPU’s struggles with them.
