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1 x Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake needed
PUSHR_Victor
Member, Host Rep
I need a single Kaby/Coffee Lake with the best possible Intel GPU I can get.
Bandwidth doesn't matter, expected transfer needed is ~200GB and disks don't matter, but even the smallest SSD would be a plus. Purpose of the server is to revisit QuickSync as a viable alternative to software encoding for specific situations. Need to rent for a week to complete all tests. Okay to rent for a month, but no more than that.
No set budget, but the lowest price with the best Intel Graphics wins (extra points for any SSD).
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Hetzner EX51-SSD-GPU https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-exEdit: missed one week rental part and intel graphics, probably google cloud GPU models or OVH 1 week rentals - although I don't think the E3 integrated graphics are too amazing.
Not sure of anyone doing short term or low setup fee kaby/coffee lakes. Hetzner Haswells could possibly work? No setup fees, think they're like 43 Eur for the month.
Thanks!
The thing is that these have already been tried (the haswells) and they were no match to software x264. QSV appears to have moved forward with Kaby which is why it or Coffee is needed for these tests. Unfortunately in my scenario, with Hetzner's setup fees it would be cheaper to buy one i3-7100 with HD630 graphics,play with it and throw it in the closet after that.
Check out Vultr bare metal E3-1270v6 kabylake servers charged by hourly billing
Took the Vultr bare metal for a spin myself https://community.centminmod.com/threads/vultr-60-discount-free-100-credit-test-drive-vultr-bare-metal-instances.13744/ ^_^
No QuickSync on these, unfortunately:/
Will rather need an i3,i5 or i7. For the E3s, the only one I know with support for QuckSync is 1285v6 (maybe some others have it too) and I have not seen one offered anywhere.
oh you need desktop cpus .. hmm don't think i've seen hourly or less than monthly duration rented desktop cpus on offer though.
I'm in the process of dropping one of my 7700k's at hetzner (probably next week or so). Would that work for you?
Yes. I am dropping you a PM.
Thanks!