ive recently upgraded my gaming pc to the 10700k and been curious on if i should upgrade my plex pc with the 6700k or keep the i5 2400 thats already in it?
are you having any problems with the current system?
if not, then keep it.
if you need more transcoding power, or other performance improvement, then the 6700 should be a decent upgrade, it is a bit over twice as powerful..
assuming the 6700 has integrated intel gpu 530, you could even get a plex pass to enjoy non-4k gpu transcoding.
if you are looking for 4k/hevc transcoding, without plex pass, you would need a cpu minimum performance around 10,000 passmarks (per 4k transcode).
as of now ive been staying away from 1080p hevc but if the 6700k can do that then maybe. but i dont think ill be doing any 4k stuff just yet the other issue is finding an miniatx board for it but i tend to get issues at times like it freezing but it hasnt happened it a while. this is what i have atm:
The 6700 is a “Sky Lake” cpu. It has only the first generation of HEVC support which, crucially, doesn’t support 10 bit color.
If you want to do a real upgrade, you want a more modern CPU (which requires a more modern mainboard, unfortunately).
What about the blu ray dvd support would the 2400 be enough to play them? I haven’t tried any
That thing is ancient. “Sandy Bridge” was the first generation which had encoding support for AVC/H.264 at all. It might be usable, but expect quality issues, particularly if the original file already has a low bitrate.
OK, the 6400 is an upgrade, compared to this 
But I’d still avoid HEVC files with this CPU.
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Also If I do upgrade I would have 6gb/s instead of 3 on sata I know its not much but would help the ssd os out and ddr4 ram speeds
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