# Need help for hardware recommandation
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-for-hardware-recommandation/584960
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [May 3, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-for-hardware-recommandation/584960 "2020-05-03T17:30:49Z")
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### Author:  [@N47H4N](https://forums.plex.tv/u/N47H4N)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-for-hardware-recommandation/584960/1 "2020-05-03T17:30:49Z")
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/](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:
1. Intel Video Acceleration (VAAPI)
2. NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC)
3. 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 !
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-for-hardware-recommandation/584960/2 "2020-08-01T17:31:02Z")
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