- Mar 26, 2016
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Let me start by saying its been more then a few years since I last built a PC 2009 maybe, so I'm in the mist of trying my best at building a NAS/streaming box
I want to host all the media from this box to multiple streaming devices/clients and have all the library's sync’d like maybe plex or kodi. Basically this box will encode/decode the streams (no 4k here fokes just 720/1080p)for each client and on top of this i’m sure I be needing a CPU capable of handling this plus i'll be doing video editing (handbrake)
Not too sure if I actually need freenas or not but it has been suggested to me already I have no experience with Linux but if its a must maybe a VM with freenas
So I'm not exactly sure if I need i3,i5,i7 or Xeon but I want to keep this in perspective its not a gaming PC no video card but I might put a ssd for the main O/S 16gb ram with a raid5 setup using 3x 3tb WD red drives On a matx or mitx motherboard in a Matx case space will be tight but this PC will go in my entertainment cabinet with other devices
Cpu's I will be considering i3 4170 ,i3 4370, i5 4460, i5 4570 trying to keep it under $220 for the CPU would be nice I've also given a few Xeon a look there basically cheaper versions of i7s but no onboard GPU for most of them Xeon e3-1226v3 1150 actually looks good to me I believe they have 4cores/8threads so that would mean hyper threading is on these xeons
Please help me on this decision your help would be appreciated!
I want to host all the media from this box to multiple streaming devices/clients and have all the library's sync’d like maybe plex or kodi. Basically this box will encode/decode the streams (no 4k here fokes just 720/1080p)for each client and on top of this i’m sure I be needing a CPU capable of handling this plus i'll be doing video editing (handbrake)
Not too sure if I actually need freenas or not but it has been suggested to me already I have no experience with Linux but if its a must maybe a VM with freenas
So I'm not exactly sure if I need i3,i5,i7 or Xeon but I want to keep this in perspective its not a gaming PC no video card but I might put a ssd for the main O/S 16gb ram with a raid5 setup using 3x 3tb WD red drives On a matx or mitx motherboard in a Matx case space will be tight but this PC will go in my entertainment cabinet with other devices
Cpu's I will be considering i3 4170 ,i3 4370, i5 4460, i5 4570 trying to keep it under $220 for the CPU would be nice I've also given a few Xeon a look there basically cheaper versions of i7s but no onboard GPU for most of them Xeon e3-1226v3 1150 actually looks good to me I believe they have 4cores/8threads so that would mean hyper threading is on these xeons
Please help me on this decision your help would be appreciated!
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