![]() ![]() ![]() So I think for now, for my purposes, it would be best to stay off Plex Pass until the next few sales, leave the 1030 out during server use (less power, one less spinning fan, better use of airflow to direct it all to CPU etc), and possibly use PCIe for extra storage or network (there's no wireless, and I think the other PCIe port is dead). Transcoding and encoding is likely required as I don't know enough about formats to be picky (and haven't been, in the past). My intention is to stream 2-3 1080p (possibly one of them being 4k in the near future, no more) to: iPad, Xbox one, android phone/tablet, Chromecast, and/or another PC. I should've bought lifetime □ I just haven't used it for a long time since. I don't currently have Plex Pass, though I did many years ago. However, all of this sounds like you're just using the Plex server for yourself or otherwise for a very small workload in which case, a 4590 should be able to handle 2-3 software transcoding streams by itself, and you don't need to upgrade. It doesn't need to be anything powerful, just recent a 10th gen Pentium or i3 can handle more streams than a 4th gen i7 thanks to hardware acceleration. If you wanted to spend money on better Plex transcoding performance, and have a Plex Pass (so you can use hardware transcoding), then upgrading to a more recent Intel CPU would be the wisest move. If you're using the computer for other purposes as well, they may or may not benefit from it (I don't know what you're doing). It could also use the encoding capabilities, but QuickSync encoding on pre-6th-gen chips looks abysmal, so turn off hardware accelerated encoding if you use it.Įither way, there's no advantage to having the GT1030 in there for Plex. If you have a Plex Pass, Plex can use the hardware decoding capabilities of your i5-4590's iGPU. Leave it out and save the power consumption. Do you have a Plex Pass? If not, Plex won't do any hardware accelerated decoding or encoding, and the point is moot. ![]()
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