Hi all,
I’m using Plex for years now and I think 2020 is the year to build a new Plex server. I’ve read thousand of topic in this forum and others website, but I’m still not convince, that’s why I need your help.
My Needs
- Watching 4K movies
- Sharing movies with friends and family. At this time, I’m sharing with 31 people, and max 7 peoples simultaneous
- My player is a Shield TV Pro but most of my friend/family don’t have 4K TV
- I won’t to have movies and TV Show in 1080p and 4K. only in 4K
- my server must be able to run Plex & Docker
My Ideas
- OS : Unraid ?
- Case: Norcotek RPC-4220
- CPU: I was thinking to buy a Ice Lake CPU with Quick Sync Video function but I didn’t find anyone compatible with ECC RAM. So my choice is more for a Intel® Xeon® E-2288G ? Should I take one or two?
- GPU: Not sure to understand if we can use Quick Sync Video AND NVENC/NVDEC. Which Nvidia card would you recommand ?
- Motherboard: SuperMicro X11SCM-F ?
I’ve read many times this page: https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/
But I’m still confuse, for example, I’ve seen some people using Quick Sync Video on Unraid Linux. But the matrix at the end show us only:
- Intel Video Acceleration (VAAPI)
- NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC)
- software encoder (x264)
I know there is thousand of tread talking about hardware, but I’m still confused, the price is not really an issue, I really want to invest, but of course I prefer to have the perfect configuration for that, that’s why I’m asking you for help.
thank you !
