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My Brother-in-law sent me his "old" GPU, so that gave me the final nudge to start a new PC build. He wants me to play DCS VR with him, so that's why he's sending his old (1 generation from the latest) gear to me.
It's going to be a gaming rig, file server, Plex server, PVR (BlueIris), DVR... and perhaps home automation when I get around to it.
Needs to be an Intel CPU so that transcoding is efficient. Was hoping 13th gen bargains could be had considering 14th gen has been out a while now, but so far the only deals have been 12th gen stuff. There's enough of an efficiency increase in 13th that I'm holding out... but 15th gen is around the corner, and it will be a major change introducing a new platform and much smaller transistor sizes. So, I'm torn between buying now, or waiting for 15th gen.
My power consumption now is about 100 watts, and I'd like to cut that in half if I can.
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