Help a noob (Budget build Picking parts)
Hi everyone it's time to upgrade my computer
It's role will be a server that runs 24/7.
My current machine does all these jobs already and I don't have much of a budget as I don't need to replace the machine,
BUDGET : £400 CPU,RAM,PSU,MB
The reasons to upgrade
1) better power efficiency (current machine uses around 100watt idle)
2) Quicker encodes with handbreak
3) Quicker backups and file transfers
The jobs the server runs are
TV Tuner (recording OTA multiple channels)
Backups (all systems on network and itself nightly)
Ripping Media (Music DVD Bluray)
Compressing media (handbreak mostly H264 1080p)
Copying all data from network locations
Running checksums on network stored data
hosts some network shares
Hosts a few virtual machines periodically
I want it to have decent ports for expansions PCI , PCIE eg more tuner cards , USB cards , NIC
The parts I was looking at are as follows
CPU: I3 6100
RAM: 8GB DDR4 2133
MB: Gigabyte - GA-X150-PLUS WS ATX LGA1151
PSU: CSM 650w Gold
Is there better parts to achieve what I want
Hi everyone it's time to upgrade my computer
It's role will be a server that runs 24/7.
My current machine does all these jobs already and I don't have much of a budget as I don't need to replace the machine,
BUDGET : £400 CPU,RAM,PSU,MB
The reasons to upgrade
1) better power efficiency (current machine uses around 100watt idle)
2) Quicker encodes with handbreak
3) Quicker backups and file transfers
The jobs the server runs are
TV Tuner (recording OTA multiple channels)
Backups (all systems on network and itself nightly)
Ripping Media (Music DVD Bluray)
Compressing media (handbreak mostly H264 1080p)
Copying all data from network locations
Running checksums on network stored data
hosts some network shares
Hosts a few virtual machines periodically
I want it to have decent ports for expansions PCI , PCIE eg more tuner cards , USB cards , NIC
The parts I was looking at are as follows
CPU: I3 6100
RAM: 8GB DDR4 2133
MB: Gigabyte - GA-X150-PLUS WS ATX LGA1151
PSU: CSM 650w Gold
Is there better parts to achieve what I want
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