Why a $140 Intel Arc GPU is the ultimate home media server upgrade ...

I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

Intel is a newcomer to the discrete GPU game. The Arc B570 is a Battlemage graphics card and was released late 2024, taking on AMD and Nvidia in the low-end segment. This GPU offers butter-smooth ...