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The GPU is usually an important part to upgrade to get old desktop hardware on with the times. Not because of games, but because having modern or many Displaypo
by DCKing 6y ago
The GPU is usually an important part to upgrade to get old desktop hardware on with the times. Not because of games, but because having modern or many Displayport/HDMI connections is nice, and modern hardware video codecs can offload a lot of heavy duty number crunching work from your CPU [1].
Any Sandy Bridge to 1st gen Skylake desktop does not have these connections or codecs and could often really benefit from a decent $50-$80 add on GPU. Desktop Sandy Bridge can still make for a very decent computer if you can keep upgrade costs in check. An Intel Xe would also be a decent upgrade if you now already depend on some crappy older Nvidia or AMD GPU.
[1]: Besides your basic h264/hevc/vp9 decoding, it seems Intel Xe has AV1 hardware video decoding, which you can otherwise only get in the very expensive/hard to get/power hungry AMD and Nvidia discrete GPUs (to be) released this month.
- pbronez 6y agoThis would be a nice upgrade for an older server. Older Dell and HP servers can host piles of storage and ram; they can make great workstation bargains, but you need to add a GPU. The Intel Xe could be a way to do that without much power draw.
- awill 6y agoBut the existing HP or sell server has huge power draw, so why try to save a few watts on a low power GPU.
- joenathanone 6y agoThis part is laptop only.
- DCKing 6y agoSure, I should spell out that I'm commenting on the obvious and much leaked next step which is PCIe cards based on this line of chips.
- fomine3 6y agoMakes sense. Most consumer video cards is for gaming, but latest video cards also help for other works. dGPU with latest QSV would be blessing for NVR server.