hi guys thinking of building a new system for converting blueray rips using handbrake to mkv for my nas, and need some help selecting components. with my old rig i was using a FX-8320 @4ghz i could get almost lossless in about 5-6 hrs per blueray . but since i have about 1,000 plus blueray backups i dont want to be waiting that long. i have about 2000 AUD to work with for now and i do not need to use it for gaming. any suggestions?
The best would probably be a Haswell-E or the best i7.
I can feel your struggle. I have an i3-4130 and whenever I use handbrake I can't do anything else until the process is done.
Edit: What parts can you re-use from your current rig?
yeah it sucks. maybe i'll go for 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2's off ebay for cheap and get one of those fancy server boards that support upto 1tb ram. then make a 500gb ram drive. :P
Are you sure that 2000AUD will cover that? And don't forget that with Xeons you'll need a dedicated GPU. Even if it's a cheapo one, it will still take money away from the budget.
Well those older Xeon´s do of course lack on certain instruction sets like AVX2.0 for example,
which in case of rendering, if the application handbrake can take the full advantage of the instruction, it will be a benefit to have.
I think that something like this might be a good base setup for you.
Assuming that you currently have some storage parts that you can re-use in a new setup.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/mJhFFT
I was also looking at a Xeon cpu option on socket 2011-3,
But in terms of AUS pricing, the 5820K looked like the best entry buy to me. 6 core 12 threads.
The cheapest 6 core Xeon the E5-2620-V3, which runs at 2.4GHz costs $100,- more then the 5820K.
So that doesnt realy make much sense to look into then.
Since the 5820K also has overclockability.