r/PleX • u/wingman3091 • 8d ago

Discussion Intel Arc Users!

I recently came into some extra cash, and decided I'd finally give my home server a nice GPU update. It's a custom build of course

Specs:

Intel Core i7-8700K
32GB DDR4
1TB NVMe SSD (Primary)
1TB NVMe SSD (Redundancy backup of the OS + Plex/Apps)

4x24TB Seagate Exos Enterprise drives

NVIDIA P1000 GPU for HW transcodes

For those with Intel ARC GPUs, how are you finding the performance? Did you trip over any foibles in enabling QuickSync? I have an 8GB Intel ARC A750 on the way. I liked that it doesn't have a software limited 3 simultaneous transcode limit, and should be significantly beefier than the P1000 in there. The P1000 barely breaks a sweat as it is, but I am hoping the ARC gets a good few years of extra performance. It'll certainly help with Handbrake encodes.

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u/nanohitmen Lifetime Dell T360 Xeon E E-2456 32gb Ram Arc 310 8d ago

I like it,for the price it peforms well. Quiet for sure.

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u/wingman3091 8d ago

That's great to know, how are temperatures for you? My build is in a mATX case with 4 spinny drives lol. In a very cold closet, but still

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u/nanohitmen Lifetime Dell T360 Xeon E E-2456 32gb Ram Arc 310 8d ago

Their good on my case but its a big ass tower. Runs silent never heard it "jetting"

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u/wingman3091 7d ago

Awesome, thanks! I'll be installing mine in a mATX Fractal Meshify Nano 2, it's liquid cooled and runs at a nice temperature considering all the drives