u/camberry
MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
MB: ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero
GPU: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080
RAM: 64GB (32×4) DDR5 6000MHz
Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD
PSU: ROG Thor 1000W Platinum III
Case: ROG Strix Helios II
Monitor: ROG Strix OLED XG32UCWMG
Really interested in a machine that can be a gaming monster and run a modest LLM when not 4k gaming**.**
MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
MB: ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero
GPU: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080
RAM: 64GB (32×4) DDR5 6000MHz
Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD
PSU: ROG Thor 1000W Platinum III
Case: ROG Strix Helios II
Monitor: ROG Strix OLED XG32UCWMG
Really interested a machine that can be a gaming monster and run a modest LLM when not 4k gaming**.**
MY DREAM ASUS PC SETUP
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
MB: ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero
GPU: ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080
RAM: 64GB (32×4) DDR5 6000MHz
Cooler: ROG Strix LC IV 360 ARGB LCD
PSU: ROG Thor 1000W Platinum III
Case: ROG Strix Helios II
Monitor: ROG Strix OLED XG32UCWMG
Really interested a machine that can be a gaming monster and run a modest LLM when not 4k gaming**.**
This is a slick project. I will give it a shot.
I just made a video showing how to make a similar automated disk ripper using VortexBox Linux in a VM with direct access to the host physical drive. It can rip, DVD, Blu-Rays, and audio CD's! My tutorial uses makmkv to rip raw video files, but there are automatic transcoding options.
I don't think it is as elegant as this project, but it is pretty easy to set up. I have mine ripping six disks at once... all automatically
8G ram is plenty. You don't need a high RPM HDD either, I am using regular drives and I have had multiple people streaming at the same time with no issue. For your storage HDD, get a drive with the most capacity that also has decent reliability (I am not too fond of western digital green drives, for instance).
The rest of your system seems fine for most playback situations and your main bottleneck is transcoding for PMS. Unless you have hardware on a GPU or APU (Intel chips Ivybridge or later), the CPU has to do all the work.
If you are itching to upgrade, a good GPU with good hardware transcoding ability will probably give you the best bump in performance for PMS. I suggest a newer Pascal or Turing based nvidia card. Keep in mind that most of those cards impose a 2 stream transcode max.
Here is a breakdown of the nvidia cards nvenc capabilities for each card https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix
A newer RX Radeon card might work well for that too, but I am not familiar enough to say for sure.
A GPU can mitigate the CPU transcoding bottleneck and will also give you a bunch more gaming performance to your HTPC :-)
Do you plan on doing 4K Bluerays too? If you do, EposVox has a good video on how to do that and drive recommendations in the description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH18K-7s9_8
Those drives will do regular bluerays and DVDs too. Might be a good way to go.
I recently made a videos on just this kind of project :-)
Ripping https://youtu.be/wT3kWtldVYY
Organizing https://youtu.be/5rs__1YZ6mE
TLDR, it's still going to take a while, but there are ways to help speed up the process and it's a fun project. Also, once you have your plex library all set up you will never go back to playing DVD's in a player anymore.
