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RamaladFranklin

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I am more concerned about the speed, and the ability to quickly render the media and images to display for whomever is looking. Is "OK" meaning it will work, but barely, or will it be a workhorse of a system?
 

kanewolf

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A media server does not usually render anything. It is usually just a gateway to storage. It could do transcoding. But the Celeron has two more cores than the AMD you chose and has Intel QuickSync support which should allow it to do transcoding.

By "OK" I meant it would function, but isn't optimum IMO. Your stated requirements to me don't require a "workhorse".
 
Depends on the media server software, for example, Plex does not use any GPU excelerated rendering and require pure CPU horse power.

My Plex server is a Phenom II X4 840 and is happy to transcode 6 HD1080 streams, if direct streaming not an option.

If you something like Kodi and use the server as a NAS, then the host will do any rendering and server just needs to handle the file thoughput, a dual core will do that.

One note, 16GB way overkill, my server runs with 8GB, just becasue I had it lying around !

If anybody is interested ..

Server 2012 R2 x64
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 R3
AMD Phenom II X4 X840
4x2GB DDR3-13333
AMD HD5700
64GB OCZ O/S
6 x 4TB WD Purple Raid-5 Storage
2 x 1TB Samsung 1TB Raid-0 Downloads, Temp, Swapfile etc etc
2 x Intel Pro 1Gbps NICS balanced to AC router (soon to be replaced by proxy server and switch)
25/250Mbps cable broadband
 

RamaladFranklin

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I would be using Serviio as my DLNA server. I mainly chose the Xenon as it has the 4.2 GHZ Dual speed. I did not see any of the Celerons that you liked to that reached that speed. (Please forgive my ignorance) but would my build with 16GB of RAM and a 4.2 GHZ Dual Speed processor outperform the celerons you linked to?
 

kanewolf

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I have no way to know. But a DLNA server doesn't require much for resources. You can do it with a Raspberry PI. It really depends on transcoding. If you don't expect to do transcoding (rescaling of video in realtime) then you don't need a power hungry CPU. 16GB RAM is a waste also. You will not use it for the activities you list.

What devices will this be serving data to?
 

RamaladFranklin

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I do have on-the-fly encoding/transcoding enabled in serviio.

I will be serving it up to (rarely at the same time) 2 Smart TV's, 2 Tablets, 2 Computers, and the occasional smartphone.

I thought the 16GB of RAM would help with any compression and/or spooling issues that would need to take place in order to render the video on the requesting device.