Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3

[Dwight Turner]

should i spring for a better CPUor is this plenty horsepower??

freenas box for home media server : 32GB ECC ram, supermicro X10 MB , 4 WD red 3 TB drives in ZFS2
plus 2 extra WD red 6 TB drives for backups


Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 Haswell 1.6 GHz 6 x 256KB L2 Cache 15MB L3 Cache LGA 2011-3 85W BX80644E52603V3 Server Processor

 

[jgreco]

It depends what you're going to be doing, but it is pretty much the crappiest possible E5 CPU. If you're going with an X10S* motherboard (single socket), you should seriously consider going for the E5-1620v3 or E5-1650v3, both of which are stellar performers at a great price-per-GHz. If you're not going with an X10S* motherboard, you should probably explain what it is you're trying to accomplish.

 

[Dwight Turner]

thanks

I read the recommended hardware but wanted to see if this was ok. I will shoot for a better cpu. I am just doing plex media server duties with this and household backups

 

[SweetAndLow]

Do you need more than 32gb of memory? If not then you could go with a haswell e3 system or skylake if you need up to 64GB. Why are you looking at e5 systems?

 

[Dwight Turner]

The board was readily available about the only reason

 

[SweetAndLow]

OK, works for me. I have a e5-1620 and it does the job just fine for me. I'm a heavy plex user and almost always have 1-2 stream going. I looked at the 1650 but the price tag was to much and I probably wouldn't notice the extra performance.

 

[Dwight Turner]

Thanks for the input gents
Looks like I will go with the 1620


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[Kevin Horton]

Depending on how many clients will be simultaneously connecting to Plex, and how many of them will require transcoding, you may very well get by with a much less powerful CPU. My G3258 CPU rarely sees more than 20% usage sustained, even when serving multiple Plex clients.

 

[Dwight Turner]

just as an update i went with a supermicro X10SRA-F with the Xeon E5 1650 CPU and Crucial 64 GB ECC ram(16GB x 4)
i am sure this is way overkill but why not..

 

[jgreco]

Is there some reason you didn't go with one of the server variants of the X10 boards?

 

[Dwight Turner]

i live in Dubai now and its what was available