Worth it to upgrade for free? I’m clueless with hardware…

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Currently running an i5-4670k with a Nvidia quadro 4060. It’s at least 11 years old but works fine for what I needed using Plex with Unraid

Inherited for free a desktop with a 13th gen i7-3700 2.10 with Nvidia GeForce rtx 4060.

Is it a no brainer to swap my hard drives from my current setup into my new one? Is both the CPU and GPU a major upgrade? Same amount of RAM (16GB) in both

At least for the CPU it would be almost a downgrade. The difference is so small, that you won’t feel it.
Your current CPU has a tiny advantage with single thread loads. And that is still very important for many workloads in Plex.

I don’t know enough about the differences between the various product lines of nVidia GPUs to tell if the Quadro would have an advantage. It might have a bigger number of video transcoding slots. If it fits, you could try to swap out only the GPU.

There’s no such thing. If it is a typo and you meant “i7-13700” then that’s a heck of an upgrade!

You do not even need to use the Nvidia GPU if that Intel CPU is the variety with a built-in GPU – it’s excellent for everything Plex. Use the Nvidia card for another gaming system, or maybe sell it and buy storage for your fancy new Plex server.

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Use 13th Gen i7 GPU or GeForce RTX 4060?

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Pretty much just what the title says? Which one should be used for transcoding? Thanks for the help!!

[mod-edit: moving this into your existing thread]