Upgrade Unraid Server To 10700k
Posted Sep 4, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC
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The usual media dockers, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, sabnzbd, nzbhydra2, Tdarr, unifi controller, cloud berry backup, swag, ombi, minecraft, netdata.
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Why not get a 12 core Xeon instead? You can pick a decent one up for ~$200.
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That 12 core xeon may be as fast as the 10700k stock, but will pull even more power, and I would need to buy ecc ram.
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Oh and no igpu.
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Asus mobos allow non ecc ram with Xeon CPUs 🙂 Unless you will do more than Dockers you won't need much video. And if you wanted serious horsepower there's an Asus board for dual xeons. That's actually my next build. ~$850 for 2 dodecacore v4 xeons and mobo. For Plex transcoding they do a far better job especially if you have multiple transcodes streams going at the same time. Plex performance is all passmark score based. I just prefer xeons for their stability over long periods of operating time. But that's just me.
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Nothing wrong with xeons, just not for me. As for the transcoding passmark scores, that is for software transcoding, I use the igpu quicksync for hardware transcoding, which it can handle over 12 1080p streams without barely hitting the cpu cores.
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My Unraid server has been running on a reliable 7700k for over a year now, and needed an upgrade for some more horsepower. I don't really want to pay the extra money for a Xeon solution, not to mention they are multiplier locked, so I chose to go with a 10th gen Intel 10700k.
Along with the CPU I decided to go with the Gigabyte Z240 Vision D motherboard. This is one of the few motherboards that offer 3 m.2 NVME slots (one used for right now and two more for future upgrades), and also had the 3 x16 PCIE slots (my setup will be running 8x/8x/4x) with the last slot available for a future upgrade if needed.
I already had 64GB of DDR-4 3200Mhz ram so I just swapped that over from the 7700K motherboard.
Finally for cooling I decided to go with a Noctua NH-12S, and added on a Noctua 120mm redux fan I had laying around to aid with thermals and give the heatsink a push-pull configuration. This heatsink just barely fits in the Supermicro 846 case.
As for overclocking, I was after a modest overclock and still needed 100% stability since this is for a server, not a gaming PC. I ended up with a 4.9Ghz all core, with adaptive voltage and allowing the cores to idle down when not doing any work to conserve on power. The CPU could definitely do 5.1Ghz or more if I decided to go with water cooling (which I did not want to do with this build), but at the same time upping the clock speed much more then 4.9Ghz wouldn't give as much of a boost in performance the higher you go.
I chose to stay with Intel with this build instead of following the vast majority of youtuber's that go the Ryzen route since I use Intel quicksync with my plex server and quicksync is much more energy efficient then throwing in a dedicated GPU for transcoding.
What are you running besides Plex? Way overkill for just a Plex box. :)