[ADVICE] TVS-872XT-i5-16G and which Nvidia GPU

[soothingvoice]

I've read through a number of posts on this forum as well as on the Plex forums to find out recommendations and suggestions on which graphics card to use with the TVS-872XT.

On the Plex forums they point out you need Plex Media Server v1.15.1.791 or newer ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002 ... streaming/ ). In that article there's also a link to a google doc that shows a hardware compatibility sheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... jdj3tmMPc/ ). Finally as part of that article Plex points users to a QNAP page that show compatibility with the GPGPU and NVidia ( https://www.qnap.com/en-us/compatibilit ... and=nvidia ). On this QNAP page, QNAP recommends the Nvidia- Quadro RTX 6000.

The TVS-872XT has 2 x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x2 slots and, I'm assuming these are PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots. Looking at the price of the recommended card I find it sort of unbelievable that there are no other recommended NVidia cards. I saw in the forum that someone had connected a Nvidia Quadro P620 to a QNAP TVS-872XT NAS ( https://gist.github.com/weshofmann/620b ... 15e48e793b ) so I see that it's possible to not spend nearly $3500 on a video card for a NAS.

What have sort of GPUs have any of you connected to a TVS-872XT? Have you had success with Plex transcoding the media? How "loud" does the QNAP unit get when the GPU is transcoding (fans blowing)?

I also would like to know if anyone has had any experience with this sort of setup and then watching content with subtitles enabled (some of us are hard of hearing). I've found that when subtitles are enabled, more processing is done by the CPU to stream and support subtitles and then buffering and jittering occurs.

As a final note, has anyone setup a unit like this and used the watch together feature from Plex ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ ), how about with subtitles?

[jaysona]

The TVS-872XT has a very capable CPU with built-in hardware decoding (Intel Quicksync), why would you spend money on a GPU to perform the same task that the i5-8400T is capable of performing?

I do not have an 872XT, but I do use M.2 NVMe on my plex server.

I have a QM2-2P-384 with two 1TB 970 EVO NVMe disks configured in RAD1 as the system volume (CACHEDEV1_DATA) and use the spinning disks volume (CACEDEV2_DATA) as storage for the plex library.

[Delosari]

I've read through a number of posts on this forum as well as on the Plex forums to find out recommendations and suggestions on which graphics card to use with the TVS-872XT.

On the Plex forums they point out you need Plex Media Server v1.15.1.791 or newer ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002 ... streaming/ ). In that article there's also a link to a google doc that shows a hardware compatibility sheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... jdj3tmMPc/ ). Finally as part of that article Plex points users to a QNAP page that show compatibility with the GPGPU and NVidia ( https://www.qnap.com/en-us/compatibilit ... and=nvidia ). On this QNAP page, QNAP recommends the Nvidia- Quadro RTX 6000.

The TVS-872XT has 2 x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x2 slots and, I'm assuming these are PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots. Looking at the price of the recommended card I find it sort of unbelievable that there are no other recommended NVidia cards. I saw in the forum that someone had connected a Nvidia Quadro P620 to a QNAP TVS-872XT NAS ( https://gist.github.com/weshofmann/620b ... 15e48e793b ) so I see that it's possible to not spend nearly $3500 on a video card for a NAS.

What have sort of GPUs have any of you connected to a TVS-872XT? Have you had success with Plex transcoding the media? How "loud" does the QNAP unit get when the GPU is transcoding (fans blowing)?

I also would like to know if anyone has had any experience with this sort of setup and then watching content with subtitles enabled (some of us are hard of hearing). I've found that when subtitles are enabled, more processing is done by the CPU to stream and support subtitles and then buffering and jittering occurs.

As a final note, has anyone setup a unit like this and used the watch together feature from Plex ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ ), how about with subtitles?

Did you find a list of cards compatible with the TVS-872XT?