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15 hours agoYou definitely want an 8th gen (Intel) or better to have Jellyfin Quick Sync support. It’s what I have (i5-8400T) and it offer a fairly decent AVC (h264) and HEVC (h265) transcoding for my usage. However, for futur proofing consider an 11th gen for the AV1 support.
When did you last repaste your GPU? it is a good practice to clean and repaste your CPU/GPU regularly (once a year or so).