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How does a HP Z440 Gaming E5-1650 v3 3.5GHz 6-Cores 8GB DDR4 GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 NEW 256GB SSD sound fo $630

I want to upgrade from my laptop, which can barely transcode 1 or 2 remote streams at once.

any other builds that are good for 8+ streams at once, please let me know.
Thanks

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While this machine will be a definitive improvement over your current one,
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-1650+v3+%40+3.50GHz&id=2389
keep in mind that

  • the CPU model is almost 5years old, which means it is very power hungry (140W!)
  • it is hard to cool silently
  • it is a Xeon, which means it doesn’t have a QuickSync unit. So using hardware transcoding and HEVC video codec is still a no-go, if you don’t also add an additional graphics card which supports this codec.
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So is the gtx 1060 installed not work with hevc codex? Wouldn’t the graphics card take care of the hardware transcoding? Or only certain codecs

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Sorry, I must have missed that above. Too many acronyms in a row I guess :wink:
Yes, according to this, https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix
the GTX 1060 should be able to help here.
But it’s officially restricted to 2 concurrent transcoding sessions.

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