Money isn’t too tight - I have a $250 Amazon credit right now to use on whatever.

I’d really prefer to upgrade the CPU because it’s already overclocked and still struggling. When I host a game like Space Engineers, I get massive lag spikes as it tries to keep up.

The CPU is just not enough for what I would like to do.

Yes, Plex transcoding is awful. Hardware transcodes aren’t possible on that build because I have nothing that supports it. The earliest QuickSync capable Intel chips are the 8000 series.

Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind.

Just double checked and the 13400 is 65W just like the 5600x, which has no iGPU. I know AM4 and DDR4 would greatly reduce the cost of this upgrade but I’d like this to last as long as possible for me.

I’d really like to utilize Intel QuickSync. Anything not capable of that is a deal breaker for me.

plex (on its way out) (media)
jellyfin (not yet migrated across) (media)

Any reason for switching? I am pretty happy with Plex, espcially how my friends can just open it and play my stuff.

It’s not the fault of the language. I just suck at programming.

You have to set a goal for yourself and find ways to achieve it. I want to build a castle - What materials do you need and how do you get them? How can you get them faster? Can you automate the material gathering?

It gets even crazier in modded Minecraft.