Dedicated Plex HTPC

[bluepan]

I'm about to click the old checkout button but I thought I would get some input first. This will serve as a dedicated Plex server with no more than two simultaneous HD (720/1080p) streams (videos will be stored on an external HD). Size and appearance were determining factors besides performance. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Especially if anyone sees any potential issues. Thanks!
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  Thermaltake Core V1 Snow Edition Extreme Mini ITX Cube Chassis, Compatible with air and Liquid Cooling Builds CA-1B8-00S6WN-01
  
  ASRock B85M-ITX LGA 1150 Intel B85 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
  
  SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power ...
  
  Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 88W BX80646I54690K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600
  
  HyperX Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model HX316C10FWK2/8
  
  Toshiba Q300 Pro 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) HDTS412XZSTA

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[the_crippler]

Specs are WAY better than what I have Plex running on for my server (which is also a Teamspeak, music and document server.) You should be fine. Mine bogs down occasionally with HD streams, but again, you're way out in front. I'm running 4gb of RAM and an old dual-core.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

I might spend the extra $20-50 for a Xeon E3-1231v3 (HyperThreading helps a lot) or drop down to a FX-8350. Either one beats the i5 at transcoding. If anything it feels like overkill.

 

[smorizio]

as your using a locked cpu look at the 4590. for the b85 mb. if you can go with the newer skylake cpu and ddr4 ram. it give you one or two cpu upgrade latter on if needed. the haswell cpu have gone end of life. on the ssd look at the newer 720 unit from samsung. if you can pick up the 256g unit. I have intel 120g ssd and with clean install of windows 10 it loses 30-40g. so there not much room for games and other aps on a smaller 120g drive.

 

[the_crippler]

as your using a locked cpu look at the 4590. for the b85 mb. if you can go with the newer skylake cpu and ddr4 ram. it give you one or two cpu upgrade latter on if needed. the haswell cpu have gone end of life. on the ssd look at the newer 720 unit from samsung. if you can pick up the 256g unit. I have intel 120g ssd and with clean install of windows 10 it loses 30-40g. so there not much room for games and other aps on a smaller 120g drive.

It's a server...there shouldn't be much need for all of that. I have a 30g SSD in mine running Linux and just enough extra software for the server needs, with old spare hardware from most of ten years ago. Then, I packed it full of large-cap HDDs in RAID and let it be. No need to break the bank or overthink it.

 

[bluepan]

I might spend the extra $20-50 for a Xeon E3-1231v3 (HyperThreading helps a lot) or drop down to a FX-8350. Either one beats the i5 at transcoding. If anything it feels like overkill.

I wanted to use an FX-8350 but I could not find a mini-ITX board with an AM3+ socket.

 

[bluepan]

as your using a locked cpu look at the 4590. for the b85 mb. if you can go with the newer skylake cpu and ddr4 ram. it give you one or two cpu upgrade latter on if needed. the haswell cpu have gone end of life. on the ssd look at the newer 720 unit from samsung. if you can pick up the 256g unit. I have intel 120g ssd and with clean install of windows 10 it loses 30-40g. so there not much room for games and other aps on a smaller 120g drive.

It's a server...there shouldn't be much need for all of that. I have a 30g SSD in mine running Linux and just enough extra software for the server needs, with old spare hardware from most of ten years ago. Then, I packed it full of large-cap HDDs in RAID and let it be. No need to break the bank or overthink it.

The SSD will only store the OS and Plex Server software so I wasn't too concerned with size.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

Yeah, AM3+ only goes down to mATX. But seriously, the Xeon E3-1231v3 is $20 more than the i5-4590K. And the HyperThreading does help quite a bit for transcoding.