Last year, I turned my old computer into a home Plex media server: I sold my gpu and bought a silent cpu cooler, an nvme boot drive and a case. I have also found a pretty good deal on a 16tb Exos hdd. I am quite happy with the overall performance because it’s my first home server and I am still digging in this rabbit hole ^^

For the next upgrades, I was thinking about increasing the transcoding performance, while keeping the power draw as low as possible. I am planning to run the server 24/7 and power efficiency is really important to me. For now, the pc is running at 30w idle, and I would like to reduce it to maybe 20w.

I had in my mind to probably upgrade the cpu to a i5-8600 or i7-8700 for x265 transcoding support. And probably finally upgrading the PSU to a quite and more efficient one at low power (maybe corsair rm550x but always out of stock).

PS: only for personal use, no massive sharing with family and friends planned.

Any advices ?

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