mykeyb Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I currently have all my music and video files on an oldish PC which sits next to my TV. Its good enough to play full HD videos and has a Blu-ray drive in (but cannot remember the last time I actually put a disc in it) My son plays videos and music on his Xbox One and my daughter does similar either through the xbox 360 or she has a little android box that does the same thing. I am using Plex Server as it will transcode files down for the Android box, Xbox and Tablets etc but the PC does struggle and gets really noisy when 2 or more streams are being transcoded. Does anyone else use Plex and what hardware do you run it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Yes I do so I can chromecast all my stuff. My PC specs: Intel Core i3 4130 Haswell 4GB DDR3 nvidia GTX650 1GB What's yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Its an old Dell Dual Core with 4 gb of Ram. I am looking at getting an old quad core Xeon server of ebay with 2 processors if possible as it is the processing power thats needed for transcoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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