I was going to buy a used 1660 on eBay for a transcoding server but they all looked dodgy. Found this for a decent price and decided to save myself some potential trouble.
It did say delivery was going to be $20 to WA but it ended up being free when I checked out.
I was so close to doing it but I realised I wasn't saving very much at this price and I just wanted to chuck it in the server and forget about it.
Same i bit the bullet and got a used one. Working great so far.
Why though? 3060 Tis are going for that price on Ebay and despite the naming scheme are a lot (~35%) stronger.
Isn't this the same price they were about three years ago
I didn't need one three years ago. I need one now.
but hodl!! (in Elon Musk whiny voice)
Cheaper here by a few bucks ($295~) with ebay plus 7% off code: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/265539466939?epid=7046119218 or MSI ITX here: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/185284937065
Doh! I should have checked their ebay store.
Thank man. That's really helpful!
Your welcome, man. Save you some moolah.
Well, you didn't because you didn't give me a better option
I use the nvenc encoder to transcode all my h264 stuff to h265.. I batch process using staxrip - happy to share my settings. I did a lot of testing before transcoding my entire NAS and the difference was minimal (as in 0.0something percent - on a still frame). Generally shrinks a 1.3GB TV episode down to about 300GB with AAC audio. I do keep atmos tracks if the show is subjectively worth it in my opinion. 1 hour show takes about 15 minutes to encode.
This is my plan too. I'm using Tdarr and it's slowly chugging away but it's way too slow without a gpu. I also want to be able to use jellyfin remotely and it struggles a bit with keeping up with transcoding a 4k stream.
Is the server only transcoding? Might be cheaper to swap to an Intel CPU like a current gen Pentium.
It's doing a few things.. NAS, docker, a few simple services. I mainly built it because I had a ryzen 3600 and mb sitting around after upgrading my main pc to a 5950x. The 3600 does transcode but it's pretty limited. I was going to go super cheap with a 2nd hand quadro p200 but this looks it will handle multiple 4k hvec streams without breaking a sweat.
Couldn't you have used a 5600g and no dGPU?
I guess so but then I'd need to find a new project for the 3600!
It's GTX 1070 speed with 6GB ram. RX6600 is similar price and GTX 1080 speeds.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1660-super…
According to techpowerup 1070 is 2% faster (look under relative performance).
I've seen your "gif" posted a lot everywhere as the most official reference. But it looks like it was madeup in mspaint by 1 member off the Tomshardware forum. It also seems slightly generous on the AMD cards. RX 580, Vega 64 and 5600xt are not that fast. Particularly it rating the Vega 64 almost 10% faster GTX 1080 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHlpSH5mMuo&ab_channel=Hardw…). The gif also doesnt factor in newer drivers and it's rather old now.
techpowerup are the same company that make cpu-z and lots of people bench through their software. But I'd only trust the tech reviewers if you're nit picking +- 2-3% performance (ie 1660s/1070) because you can see what games they use in their averages.
RX 6600 is going for $349, about 15% more then this and you get about 50% more GPU depending on the title.
Recently bought a used 12GB 3060 for $360.
Very happy with it!