IIRC, ARC GPUs are fine especially for non-gaming. The issue is stock as some have become harder to get.
Storage, 4k playback. I'm pretty sure I need a card if I want to play 4k disks because intel won't read 4k ultra HD blurays post 11th gen. Really not too much
They are priced fairly, and XeSS is almost as good as DLSS2 (no frame gen). The low end ones are REALLY low end, though. Basically, you get what you pay for, and an A770 is a pretty nice card for the price.
People joke about this, but a higher fps now could mean a cpu lasts longer for someone at a certain fps target, or in certain scenarios desiring higher fps to reduce motion blur.
The price of gaming hardware falls so quickly that it is virtually never economical to pay a premium to "future-proof" a computer. The additional price you pay will be substantial now, but will be fuck-all by the time the future you're planning for comes about.
Usually you don't plan to future proof. The time just sort of flies by until at some point you notice you skipped 4 or so cpu gens.
Isn't that way overkill? It appears to have 16GB. I'm looking at an A330 for my server-desktop. But that is all it's going to be, not a gaming platform. Perhaps we have different use cases.
Sorry, am I misunderstanding what you mean here? Because if not, I have to press 'F' to doubt.
Minisforum have a pretty solid reputation, and apart from the power usage (which is only really an issue if you put the 7940HX in a laptop), it's a great little chip.
Do you intend to have a home server that does the media playback/storage at minimum with something like Jellyfin but also other things like running a Minecraft server or surveillance camera or just a media player connected directly to your TV that plays discs/rips with VLC?
It's really just media playback and deep storage. I don't have big expectations for it.
If it’s essentially just a Plex server, the CPU is the main consideration. You shouldn’t even need a GPU, but if you wanted to put one in it, I would just look for something super cheap like a used 1050ti or something.
You don't need a GPU, but having transcoding support for the latest codecs will help a lot. A recent Intel CPU with built in graphics will be ideal, but the jellyfin guys have a ranking with AMD GPUs being at the bottom
Really it's for transcoding for 4k bluray discs. 12th gen intel doesn't like that. I basically need a card. A basic bitch 4060 should be more than enough to do that.
Keep in mind that hardware encoders don't compress as well as software ones because they're optimized for streaming, but yeah they're a lot faster.
Well intel ripped out the abilty to read 4k discs from 12 gen cores and above, so its either the card or nothing lol.
SGX was removed in 11th gen, aka Rocket Lake.
