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I need a strong media server build. IE: stream 4k, do some database and scripting stuff, serve filesystems to other location machines, run some VM's, do photoshop, that kind of stuff. Probably some at the same time (I wish I were kidding). Are there recommendations for builds like that? I'd assume some kind of midtower, probably a bunch of disks for storage, help me out and kick me in the nuts for whatever is not sensible as a single server for all this. I'm open to recommendations.
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orange juche posted:Streaming 4k can be quite intensive if you're doing it on your server's CPU, but if you use a GPU to do it, you can get away with some silly poo poo. This is a lot within what I was looking for, I neglected to mention that it's basically plex + photo editing + some VM's running in the background. I don't really want to break above $3k but below that is probably fair game.
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What country are you in? USA What are you using the system for? Web and Office? Gaming? Video or photo editing? Professional creative or scientific computing? Professional day trading + Plex server + trading bot. Aiming for either a dell 49" 4k or the 8k monitor, depending. I want to make sure I can have a million windows open and still stream plex in the background for other people. What's your budget? We usually specify for just the computer itself (plus Windows), but if you also need monitor/mouse/whatever, just say so. Probably limit is $5k-10k range excluding monitor, as I'm just going to use trading profits to buy something like that 49" dell curved 4k monitor. If you’re doing professional work, what software do you need to use? What’s your typical project size and complexity? If you use multiple pieces of software, what’s your workflow? Trading is super CPU intensive/significant numbers of windows so probably something like Ryzen 3900x as my bias towards Ryzen. If you're gaming, what is your monitor resolution? How fancy do you want your graphics, from “it runs” to “Ultra preset as fast as possible”? I don't care so long as it can render, but I have a Vega 56 lying around if it's enough to support either 4x4k or I can buy something else.
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Oct 28, 2019 01:50
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Scruff McGruff posted:I mean, with that kind of budget you can pretty much do whatever you want. I've always been a fan of Noctua's in my builds, and I was honestly split. I want 4x 4K, but wife wants 1x-2 4K displays max and arbitrarily isn't ok with 4 displays, so I may even get two of those eventually. I'm fine with a 2060 super if that's basically the common recommendation lately. I was avoiding quadro/workstation cards solely out of fear that plex's GPU leveraging for rendering would screw it up. I mean, a lot of my video I stream is like 80mb/s and if I get a new camera that may go even higher, sadly. I'm sure I'm missing a lot because the current CPU is an i5-4690 so I missed 4K friendly rendering. I'll probably aim for 64-128GB ram in case I need to spin up some VM's, but aside from that I like this as it gives me a general estimate on cost lately. I was planning to go NVME, but I didn't realize 1TB NVME is now $110 - that's amazing. lol uh....that seems a bit more expensive and they didn't even compare it to anything 3900's? notwithoutmyanus fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 28, 2019 |
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Oct 28, 2019 21:23
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