Graphics card in headless NAS to improve performance?

[drjones]

A while ago, I built up a Windows 7 PC to act as my NAS / Media Server; I run Plex.

PC has an i5, 12GB RAM, soon going to clone the C: to an SSD.

If I installed a dedicated graphics card, would that improve Plex performance in any way? The NAS runs headless; there is no monitor attached to it.

Thanks!

 

[discipulus]

Most likely not. Are you having performance issues now?

 

[drjones]

Most likely not. Are you having performance issues now?

Nope it runs pretty well, just curious if the card would help at all....

 

[discipulus]

No. Graphics card on the player needs to support H.264 hardware decoding, other than that the only way to improve performance would be a better processor.

 

[Markverhyden]

^^^ From what I have read using GPU's to improve performance requires special coding. They are generally used in specialized environments that involve some really heavy lifting, such as bitcoin mining and other computationally intensive processes.

 

[mrapoc]

Unless plex supports something like CUDA which it won't that's some serious stuff right there.

 

[drjones]

Thanks guys just wanted to check...I'm kinda a performance junkie.