rockstar0215
Dabbler
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I've been doing some major lurking for a few days and I have a solid grasp on what makes a good system. My plans include a X9 or a X10 board with a E3- 1220 either v2 or v3. There is only a $5-10 difference between these two setups. I was hoping I could buy Ivy Bridge cheaper because it's an older version but there's really no difference. Now for performance, does anyone have any experience? Haswell supports graphics which is useless for this application. Is there a serious performance boost over v2 xeon chips? I will mostly be using Plex for transcoding and the ZFS option for files.
Is there a reason one would choose one over the other?
EDIT: I also considered the i3 4th gen (because of ECC support; 3rd gen does not support ECC) with the X10 because the cheaper cost of processor. After lurking some report that this may not be beefy enough to stream and transcode at the same time. Opinions?
Is there a reason one would choose one over the other?
EDIT: I also considered the i3 4th gen (because of ECC support; 3rd gen does not support ECC) with the X10 because the cheaper cost of processor. After lurking some report that this may not be beefy enough to stream and transcode at the same time. Opinions?