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Over Synology, and looking to build my first home lab. Could use some advice on parts...
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Thanks! Wasn't sure about the cooling, so that's good to know. And yeah, I didn't know if I actually wanted graphics or not. Whether integrated or a card. Actually, now that I'm typing this out, I do need something for Jellyfin transcoding at least.
There is a part of me that wanted to run my own small llm to go with home assistant, but I don't think that's really necessary.
If you're considering video transcoding, I'd give Intel a look. Quicksync is pretty well supported across all of the media platforms. I do think Jellyfin is on a much more modern ffmpeg than Plex, and it actually supports AMD. But, I don't have any experience with that... Only Nvidia and Intel. You really don't need a powerful CPU either. I've got my Plex server on a little i5 NUC, and it can do 4k transcodes no problem.
You most likely want graphics for initial install and troubleshooting (like when your NAS loses connection for example). I would recommend a 5600G instead. Nice little APU that works great with Jellyfin transcoding. It's what I have in my own DIY NAS.
Everyone else seems to be recommending going with Intel because it's apparently the gold standard in transcoding. But you don't have any problems with yours and being an amd?
I have not had any problems on my end. I do know that for encoding, there are some quality issues with AMF when comparing it against Nvidia and Intel at equivalent bitrates that was only resolved with the latest 90xx series, but for Jellyfin purposes it works perfectly fine.
I prefer AMD over Intel because for 3D acceleration, AMD wins hands down. I also like AMD CPUs over the absolute power-hungry heaters that are Intel CPUs because it allows me to use lower profile coolers and cheaper PSUs.
The thing is that even quite old Intel CPUs have good transcoding support with Jellyfin. For people buying used desktops is great. AMDs are a more recent development. Since you're building everything brand new, take your pick. With AMD you could run some light ROCm workloads.
You can use the stock cooler it comes with. That's said to be a bit loud so any cheap tower cooler will do. But the 5600 is way overpowered for a home server. And you'd need one with a built in GPU, like the 5600G. While having more power than needed is not a bad thing, this baby will suck quite a bit of electricity so it's more expensive to run. Unless you really need the power, I'd look at an Intel N150 or N200.