Handbrake/ casual gaming build

Kartajan

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1. Usage: Custom Handbrake encodes, casual gaming
2. Budget: under $700
3. Country: US
4. Brand preference. Not a fanboy, but leanings toward Asus/ Asrock, Intel.
6. Re-use parts: Case, PSU, Monitors, input devices, & Asus GTX-970 (until the GPU bubble pops)
7. Overclocking: No
8. Resolution: 1920x1080 (2x)
9. WHEN? next 3-5 days
10. Software: I have all the SW licenses needed already


The i5-4690S (In my Signature) is just not fast enough for what I am doing. Looking for any valid input as to my planned build:
Pricing is all via newegg for simplicity...

ADATA XPG GAMMIX D10 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) AX4U266638G16-DBG $157.99
Intel Core i5-8400 $178.99
LG 12X Blu-Ray UH12NS40 - OEM $ 45.49
SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 MZ-V6E500BW $199.99
ASUS TUF B360M-E GAMING LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel B360 $ 89.04

$671.50
 

Markfw

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The Ryzen 5 1600 is almost exactly the same price, and runs@3.2 instead of 2.8 for the 8400. I have not seen benchmarks on that software though. The motherboard to mate with that would be the ASRock AS350 pro4, and both those 2 CPU and motherboard are almost exactly the same price as the 8400.
 

Kartajan

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The Ryzen 5 1600 is almost exactly the same price, and runs@3.2 instead of 2.8 for the 8400. I have not seen benchmarks on that software though. The motherboard to mate with that would be the ASRock AS350 pro4, and both those 2 CPU and motherboard are almost exactly the same price as the 8400.

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The workload that I am running should scale similarly to this benchmark. If handbrake scaled better with thread count I would consider it, but the higher power consumption makes me think that heat could become an issue in the case I am using.

Thank you for the advice though.
 

Markfw

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The workload that I am running should scale similarly to this benchmark. If handbrake scaled better with thread count I would consider it, but the higher power consumption makes me think that heat could become an issue in the case I am using.

Thank you for the advice though.
I think the 1600 takes less power than the 8400, but it looses in this benchmark badly, so unless you could get an 1800x for $180-190 (which I doubt), stick with your 8400, since this appears to be your primary purpose for this machine.
 

LTC8K6

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You could drop a 4790 or 4790K in there and wait for GPU prices to become sane again, and also Intel should have it's 8 core desktop chip and new chipset out by the end of the year.

I think the 4790K is very close to the 6700K in Handbrake.
 

Kartajan

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For anyone who is interested in the results, for my custom encodes, I was getting approximately 15 fps averaged across an entire encode cycle with the i5-4690S / DDR3, with the i5-8400 & DDR4 I am getting an average of 32 fps (with occasional peaks in the high 40s).

I am calling that a success. (If anyone wants to compare their setup, here is the json file for my encode jobs.)
Code:
{
  "PresetList": [
    {
      "AudioCopyMask": [
        "copy:aac",
        "copy:ac3",
        "copy:dtshd",
        "copy:dts",
        "copy:mp3",
        "copy:truehd",
        "copy:flac",
        "copy:eac3"
      ],
      "AudioEncoderFallback": "ac3",
      "AudioLanguageList": [],
      "AudioList": [
        {
          "AudioBitrate": 160,
          "AudioCompressionLevel": 0.0,
          "AudioDitherMethod": null,
          "AudioEncoder": "av_aac",
          "AudioMixdown": "dpl2",
          "AudioNormalizeMixLevel": false,
          "AudioSamplerate": "auto",
          "AudioTrackQualityEnable": false,
          "AudioTrackQuality": -1.0,
          "AudioTrackGainSlider": 2.0,
          "AudioTrackDRCSlider": 1.0
        },
        {
          "AudioBitrate": 640,
          "AudioCompressionLevel": 0.0,
          "AudioDitherMethod": null,
          "AudioEncoder": "copy",
          "AudioMixdown": "dpl2",
          "AudioNormalizeMixLevel": false,
          "AudioSamplerate": "auto",
          "AudioTrackQualityEnable": false,
          "AudioTrackQuality": -1.0,
          "AudioTrackGainSlider": 0.0,
          "AudioTrackDRCSlider": 0.0
        }
      ],
      "AudioSecondaryEncoderMode": true,
      "AudioTrackSelectionBehavior": "first",
      "ChapterMarkers": true,
      "ChildrenArray": [],
      "Default": false,
      "FileFormat": "av_mkv",
      "Folder": false,
      "FolderOpen": false,
      "Mp4HttpOptimize": false,
      "Mp4iPodCompatible": false,
      "PictureAutoCrop": true,
      "PictureBottomCrop": 138,
      "PictureLeftCrop": 0,
      "PictureRightCrop": 0,
      "PictureTopCrop": 138,
      "PictureDARWidth": 0,
      "PictureDeblock": 4,
      "PictureDeinterlaceFilter": "decomb",
      "PictureCombDetectPreset": "default",
      "PictureCombDetectCustom": null,
      "PictureDeinterlacePreset": "default",
      "PictureDeinterlaceCustom": "",
      "PictureDenoiseCustom": "",
      "PictureDenoiseFilter": "off",
      "PictureDenoisePreset": "light",
      "PictureDenoiseTune": "none",
      "PictureDetelecine": "off",
      "PictureDetelecineCustom": "",
      "PictureItuPAR": false,
      "PictureKeepRatio": true,
      "PictureLooseCrop": false,
      "PictureModulus": 2,
      "PicturePAR": "auto",
      "PicturePARWidth": 0,
      "PicturePARHeight": 0,
      "PictureRotate": "0:0",
      "PictureWidth": null,
      "PictureHeight": null,
      "PictureForceHeight": 0,
      "PictureForceWidth": 0,
      "PresetDescription": "Roku Ready",
      "PresetName": "Mom",
      "Type": 1,
      "UsesPictureFilters": false,
      "UsesPictureSettings": 2,
      "SubtitleAddCC": false,
      "SubtitleAddForeignAudioSearch": true,
      "SubtitleAddForeignAudioSubtitle": false,
      "SubtitleBurnBehavior": "foreign",
      "SubtitleBurnBDSub": false,
      "SubtitleBurnDVDSub": false,
      "SubtitleLanguageList": [],
      "SubtitleTrackSelectionBehavior": "none",
      "VideoAvgBitrate": 0,
      "VideoColorMatrixCode": 0,
      "VideoEncoder": "x264",
      "VideoFramerate": "30",
      "VideoFramerateMode": "pfr",
      "VideoGrayScale": false,
      "VideoHWDecode": false,
      "VideoScaler": "swscale",
      "VideoPreset": "slow",
      "VideoTune": "film",
      "VideoProfile": "high",
      "VideoLevel": "4.0",
      "VideoOptionExtra": "",
      "VideoQualityType": 2,
      "VideoQualitySlider": 22.0,
      "VideoQSVDecode": true,
      "VideoQSVAsyncDepth": 4,
      "VideoTwoPass": true,
      "VideoTurboTwoPass": false,
      "x264Option": "",
      "x264UseAdvancedOptions": false
    }
  ],
  "VersionMajor": "11",
  "VersionMicro": "0",
  "VersionMinor": "0"
}