Any idea on the difference between and i3 verse an i5 is for power draw, particularly idle power draw? Will likely run the processor 2 or 3 hours in the evening and will only be encoding and running the plex server. Don’t normally look at intel cpus so if there is something else I should know or consider here please let me know.
Both will likely have the same idle power draw. There are 14 generations of i3s and i5s and you haven’t mentioned which it is.
Newer CPUs 10th gen or higher would be around 2W or even less.
11th Gen or Higher, is there an advantage to my use case getting the newest?
I have only used 10th gen but I guess newer ones are more power efficient.
Better transcoding with a newer iGPU
I built a i3 Plex server with trunas scale I bought 13th gen and trunas didn’t recognize the i3 properly in beginning for hardware encoding. After digging around on some forums I was able to add in the hardware id somehow and got it function properly. I took awhile for me to find the information to make it happen and there’s a possibility updates to truenas have added it in.
Before hw encoding was working right CPU would hit like 80-90% utilization when transcoding after getting it to work I see 20-30% max on transcode.
I use the Intel stock cooler and the CPU rarely ever gets over 40c in an 80f household.
I wish I could tell you the wattage but I don’t think truenas interface has a CPU power monitor just temps. Which at idle is 35c in my chassis
“the CPU rarely ever gets over 40c in a 26c household.”
I didn’t want to do the conversion haha my thermostat is in Fahrenheit for the house
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Well i3s and i5s have been around for nearly 15 years now so, that doesn’t tell us much. But intel’s processors are usually quite good at idle power draw, so generally, a higher tier cpu is going to give you more power for when you need it.