Value build — most for your money
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Idle: 32 W · Overall: 100/100 · balanced
Ready-made build recommendations · RO
Best Jellyfin media server
A complete, explainable recommendation for the A home server for Jellyfin with hardware transcoding and media storage. — components, reasoning, trade-offs, energy cost and upgrade path, generated by the WisePC decision engine.
Your requirements
- CPU threads
- 8
- RAM
- 43 GB
- Storage
- 10 TB
- GPU
- dedicated
System blueprint
The system as a whole — before the shopping list.
Mission
- Jellyfin· primary · 2 users
- Transcoding· secondary · 1 users
- File storage· secondary · 1 users
Constraints
- Budget
- 900 €
- Region
- ro
- Storage
- —
- Network
- —
- Energy priority
- 5/10
- Noise priority
- 3/10
- Expansion priority
- 5/10
Recommended architecture
diy · tower build on LGA 1700 + Intel Z690
- Compute
- Intel Core i5 14500T OEM/Tray
- Memory
- Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4-4000 CL18 64GB (2x32GB)
- Storage
- OWC Aura Ultra IV 8TB SSD M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe, Seagate Exos M 36TB 3.5" HDD 7200RPM SATA 6.0 Gb/s
- Networking
- —
- Cooling
- Thermalright Le Grand Macho Air 159mm Fanless
- Power
- SeaSonic PRIME Fanless Black 700W Fully Modular 80+ Titanium Certified
- Expansion
- 1× PCIe, 3× M.2, 5× SATA, 1 bay, 2× RAM
Recommended build
Smart build — best all-round
Architecture: tower build on LGA 1700 + Intel Z690
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Total
- Performance
- 100
- Value
- 100
- Efficiency
- 76
- Expandability
- 100
- Silence
- 95
- Longevity
- 100
- Reliability
- 75
- Overall
- 100
- Idle
- 32 W
- Typical
- 48 W
- Peak
- 79 W
- Energy / year
- ≈98 €
Assessment
balanced
| Role | Component | Qty | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpu | Intel Core i5 14500T OEM/Tray | 1 | — | … |
| motherboard | Gigabyte Z690 GAMING X DDR4 V2 | 1 | — | … |
| ram | Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4-4000 CL18 64GB (2x32GB) | 1 | — | … |
| case | Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Black | 1 | — | … |
| cooling | Thermalright Le Grand Macho Air 159mm Fanless | 1 | — | … |
| psu | SeaSonic PRIME Fanless Black 700W Fully Modular 80+ Titanium Certified | 1 | — | … |
| storage | OWC Aura Ultra IV 8TB SSD M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe | 1 | — | … |
| storage | Seagate Exos M 36TB 3.5" HDD 7200RPM SATA 6.0 Gb/s | 1 | — | … |
| gpu | AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Liquid Devil Overclocked Liquid Cooled 16GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card | 1 | — | … |
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Why this build
- Intel Core i5 14500T OEM/Tray: 20 threads covers the 8 needed with headroom.
- Motherboard Intel Z690 (LGA 1700): matches the CPU socket and case size.
- RAM: 64GB DDR4 — meets the 43GB the workload requires.
- AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Liquid Devil Overclocked Liquid Cooled 16GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card: 16GB VRAM selected for your dedicated GPU need.
- Chose Intel Core i5 14500T OEM/Tray over Intel Core Ultra 9 285: better overall fit for your priorities.
Why not the alternative
- Smart build — best all-round beats "Long-term build — expandable & future-proof" on efficiency +8 — that is why it is recommended for your priorities.
What limits you first
RAM is the closest to its limit (68% of capacity in use). RAM will force the next upgrade.
Smart next upgrades
- Upgrade motherboard to Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WIFI II
Other builds to consider
Long-term build — expandable & future-proof
0 €
Idle: 41 W · Overall: 100/100 · balanced
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