This is a brand new top of the line Bean Canyon Intel NUC. It has the new Core i7-8559U 4.5GHZ processor with an Iris Plus Graphics 655 iGPU. This NUC achieved a 12870 CPU score in passmark which is impressively high for any CPU, and is especially high for such a small, energy efficient system. […]
Author: Alex
Cheap 8TB Western Digital Drives
I still see far too many people paying way too much for 8-10TB Drives. This is a tutorial on how to shuck the Western Digital Mybook 8TB External hard drive. This drive can be found at bestbuy for anywhere from $130 to $180 when on sale. Unbox the hard drive: When prying the case […]
Limitations and bugs when using Quicksync in Plex
I recently tested multiple Quicksync capable CPU’s in Plex and found some interesting bugs/problems. I would like to make the community aware of these issues in the hope that maybe Plex can work on fixing them :). First and foremost what is Quicksync? Quicksync is Intel’s answer to hardware transcoding on cpus with the iGPU (Integrated […]
How well can AMD GPU’s Hardware transcode?
I went out and bought an RX580 naively thinking it might have similar performance to the P2000 without the price tag. On paper things look very similar and in some cases slightly better for the RX580: On paper these two cards are similar and even if I were to have gotten half the performance out […]
How to turn a $60 computer with a P2000 into a POWERFUL plex server?
I set out to answer a question I had after reviewing the P2000 in our previous blog post can a slow, dusty, 7 & ½-year-old computer in your closet into a high-performance plex server? Would it run well in a PC with a 240 watt Power supply? How much money can you save by using […]
Hardware transcoding in Plex with the P2000 and a 2U supermicro dual X5670 server.
Purchase a P2000: $790 P4000 https://amzn.to/2CW9ucd $400 P2000 https://amzn.to/2xb0Hgn $140 P400 https://amzn.to/2xi2Bw0 Video of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmlrfQZ2ExA Can a video card transcode better than current generation CPU’s and provide the same or a better experience for your plex viewers? Is this card any better than some of the more powerful gaming graphics cards that […]