Just asking for sanity’s sake. I currently have an AMD 4600G (no dedicated graphics) in my system. I have an old AMD 3900 that I’m thinking of putting in there as an upgrade for upgrade sakes. Will this bork anything?
I’m thinking mostly if this will bork Plex transcoding since there’s not an integraged graphics anymore. But it could just use CPU power to transcode too…right?
Edit - changed CPU 4500G to 4600G.
Before worrying about Plex transcoding, i would be more worried about the mainboard doesn’t properly boot without detecting a VGA.
But, achieved this, i can confirm you (i’m running totally headless too) that TN don’t complain about that at all, all apps are running without issue, i have also a couple of Windows VM… but IMHO don’t rely on CPU transcoding, is know to not be so efficient; i use Jellyfin without transcoding and literally 0 problem
Are you currently actually bottlenecked with the current CPU and is it actually a “4500G”? I couldn’t find specs for it.
Nevertheless it should probably already be a hexacore and if you use the iGPU for transcoding that is probably way more efficient than CPU transcoding on a 3900.
I wish I could’ve got Jellyfin to work. That was my preferred route but I could never get the app to see the Movies or TV Shows directories.
Also, how come Plex has issues with transcoding, but Jellyfin doesn’t?
Apologies on the CPU name error. It’s a 4600G, 6-core with Radeon Graphics.
No I’m not bottlenecked, just like to tinker too much haha. Good to know the iGPU is better than the 3900 though.
That’s weird as thats mostly the easy part. I am running Jellyfin myself.
What do you mean by that?
that’s very relatable but for that usecase I’d probably stick with the 4600G.
In my little experience i have used nor Plex and Jellyfin, both without transcoding (don’t have the plexpass)… Strictly talking related to transcoding I can’t say for sure that was a specific Plex version problem ( i was on Core, and couldn’t update) but i was experiencing playback issue on specific files that im not experiencing anymore on Jellyfin (plus a lot of other things that i prefer, but subjective).
I totally agree with @TheColin21 when he say that probably Stick with the 4600g Is the better option in your use case
Something just came to my mind: if you should be thinking about using ECC memory you will need to use the 3900. Ryzen -G non-Pro CPUs generally don’t support ECC iirc.
Appreciate the feedback guys!
