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Reddit mentions of Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell, 3.3GHz, 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1150, 80W Quad-Core Server Processor BX80646E31230V3
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We found 4 Reddit mentions of Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell, 3.3GHz, 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1150, 80W Quad-Core Server Processor BX80646E31230V3. Here are the top ones.
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Improved CPU performance via IPC gains, integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR)Added 256 bit INT and FMA to AVX, improved AES-NI performanceSignificant 3D and media performance increase, digital display repartition (up to three total HDMI 1.4, DVI, DP), VGA support (may have 1 VGA and up to two digital displays)LGA 1150 socket (2013 / 2014 processors), tho-Channel DDR3/L (up to four DIMMs at 1600MHz), 95W / 80W / 45W / 16W thermal solution options
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| Height | 3.3 Inches |
| Length | 4.6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 0.8 Pounds |
| Width | 4.4 Inches |
Xeon E3-1230V3, Asrock B85 ITX, two sticks of Kingston 8GB DDR3
From what I've seen Plex isn't that picky about memory speed; I ran single-channel 1333 and the CPU was still the limiting factor for streams.
Plex servers can run headless so a video card (or IGP) is not necessary; that said, if you don't have a spare GPU for setup (or if you just want to run a monitor on the server, either way) either pick up a cheap 5450 or something or get a Xeon 1245V3.
I'd suggest the Xeon E3 1230 V3. It's basically an i7 without integrated graphics.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-E3-1230V3-Quad-Core-Processor-BX80646E31230V3/dp/B00D697PEG/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1407878216&sr=1-1&keywords=intel+xeon+1230+v3
This amount of storage is begging for ZFS on Freenas. A 15-drive RAID-Z3 would yield 48TB of storage with triple-redundancy. For any kind of data storage, ZFS provides much higher levels of data integrity than other file systems, but with this much data, it's practically essential along with proper server hardware and ECC memory.
A Freenas build would substitute:
The SSDs could be used as dedicated L2ARC and ZIL devices to intelligently accelerate reads and writes.
This seems to give a value of ~250W for the power requirements; I gather one PSU should be sufficient.
EDIT - Freenas is designed to be booted from a USB-flash drive; this can be connected directly to a header on the motherboard. The M1015 acts as dumb SATA ports, and not as a RAID controller. When rebuilding a degraded array, unlike a conventional RAID volume, a ZFS RAID-Zn volume only writes data to the new disk in proportion to how full the volume is. And the array described above would easily saturate both gigabit ethernet adapters on the motherboard.
Planning on upgrading from a Haswell Xeon 3.3 Ghz I bought 3 years ago, to a ryzen 1700x @ 3.3->3.8Ghz.
Is this really all the improvement the CPU market has seen in 3 years? I know the Intel 8th gen has high 4 Ghz processors, but those aren't in stock anyway. Aside from the (marginal) cpu speed increase, would the 1700x really be much improvement over my old CPU?