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Hello all, I recently setup jellyfin on my RPi 4 with an external HDD attached and after a few tests I decided to move on. On ebay I found a refurbished Fujitsu Mini PC with a Pentium G4560. It is way cheaper than the Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q (with a G5400T) which I saw being recommended a lot.

My question is:

how does the higher TDP of the former 54 W with a base frequency of 3.50 GHz compare to the latter with a TDP of 35 W for 3.10 GHz in a real world scenario running jellyfin?

For now I will continue using my external HDD because the prices for new drives is too high for me.

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[–] JASN_DE 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really depends on if you need transcoding or not. If no, it doesn't matter. If yes, check for integrated GPUs on both models and check that it will work as a transcoder for jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What do you think about a i5-7200U? It has a Intel 620 iGPU.

[–] Diplomjodler3 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People generally recommend 8th gen or higher Intel chips for transcoding so I'd look at alternatives. I have a Dell with an 8th gen i5 and that works very well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

How much was it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i5-7200U

That is Kaby Lake and seems to support up to HEVC for decoding which might be enough for you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardware_decoding_and_encoding

For a bit of future proof you might want to check out something Tiger Lake or newer since it seems like they support AV1 decoding in hardware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately tere doesn't seem to be a market for used Tiger Lakes yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Best would be below 100€. 200€ would be possible but I'd have to save a bit.