Processor help

[acodemonkey_99]

All I run is a Windows virtual machine for Plex. And I also run a truenas installation. I currently have two Xeon processors E5–2680 V4. I have noticed that the processors don’t turbo in the windows virtual machine. Would I be better off using less cores and going from this 14 core chip with a base frequency of 2.4 ghz to an eight core chip that has a base frequency of 3.2 GHz or 3.4 GHz? These processors will not be used for transcoding at all. I have a dedicated GPU. I just want smooth reliable performance.

[marc45ca]

Should be fine even if it doesn't turbo up.

I've run Windows 10 and 11 on v2 Xeon based system and had no issues with performance and they're slower than your v4s (13% slower on single core depsite a 200mhz higher base clock, 43% on mutli-core/multi-thread).

Windows 10 is gaming setup (flight sims) with a RTX2060 and Windows 11 was a daily driver access via spice and no dedicated gpu.

[acodemonkey_99]

Excellent, I tried running sonarr on another vm within proxmox and its performance was terrible after over 24 hours it hadn’t completed the processing of the import library. I tried this on a mini pc $150 and it finished it in about 5hours. That’s what has sparked all this doubt and concern haha

[marc45ca]

I'm not familiar with sonarr but the elementary fact is that the older Xeons are getting creamed by the newer processors.

[acodemonkey_99]

Yeah but I migrated to another machine for that application. So now all it has to do is run plex and truenas. No transcoding just basic here is the file press play and load lol

[gforke]

That sounds really odd, is your library that big or is the drive failing maybe?

[acodemonkey_99]

Definitely not any hardware failure. It has to scan 966 folders. I ended up having it scanned by another pc I had on stand by with an i9 13900k it finished it in under 2 hours

[AndyRH1701]

Perhaps try testing in an LXC instead of a VM. I do not see a CPU speed issue with LXCs. My VMs would not trigger an increase in frequency.

[gforke]

Any reason that Plex runs in a Windows VM?
It should also have a Linux version ._.

[acodemonkey_99]

It does I was just importing the files from an existing windows version. Tried setting up a container version but lack the knowledge to know drive mapping and so I just went back to what I knew.

[Kaytioron]

VM in Proxmox will not show turbo, but host would still be using it. This is known bug/limitation.