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I don't know what kind of server you're running, but if you plan to host any video then you want a dedicated GPU or a cpu with integrated graphics (and even if you're not, I think it's a good idea anyway), which the 5600x doesn't.
I also think it's overboard to get $90 watercooling. Just get an air cooler for half or a third of the price
Someone else mentioned the cooler too, so that's out for sure. To be honest, I never really thought about graphics in the traditional sense, but I do need something for at least Jellyfin transcoding. And maybe a small llm. Would it be better to get a dedicated GPU or CPU with integrated?
Dedicated GPUs are obviously going to be more powerful. I've never run ai before so maybe someone else can weigh in on the requirements for it, but I can say for sure that an igpu is good enough for jellyfin transcoding. It also depends on your budget, do you want to spend the extra money just for a dedicated GPU?
If you go igpu route I think that Intel is recommended over AMD, but you should probably do extra research on that before buying
My amd igpu works just fine for jellyfin. LLMs are a little slow, but that's to be expected.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I really want to deal with an llm. It would mostly be for home assistant, so nothing too crazy.
I have a very similar NAS I built. The Home Assistant usage doesn't really even move the needle. I'm running around 50 docker containers and chilling at about 10% cpu.
The LLM for home assistant, or just HA in general doesn't move the needle? My HA is also pretty low key, but I was considering the idea of running my own small llm to use with HA to get off of OpenAI. My current AI usage is very small, so I wouldn't need too much on the GPU side I'd imagine, but I don't know what's sufficient.
Just home assistant doesn't move the needle. The llms hit the igpu hard and my cpu usage spikes to 70-80% when one is thinking.
But my llms i'm running are ollama and invokeai each with several different models just for fun.
The gold standard for transcoding these days is a newer gen Intel CPU with integrated graphics.
The integrated GPU on those intel chips can do Intel QuickSync / QSV which will handle a dozen streams at once without breaking a sweat.
Interesting, why intel?