Dell Server as a Plex Server do i need more hardware?

Hello

i bought dell server PowerEdge T30

Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz
Intel® HD Graphics P530
8 GB Memory
Windows 10 64

i think i need to upgrade the ram to 16 GB but what i need more

this server for 1080 movies and tv shows for my family and friends

do i need use nvidia or amd gpu or the buildin is good

thank you in advance

The 8 GB RAM should be alright.

The CPU is not very power-efficient
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1225+v5+%40+3.30GHz&id=2707

If you only have H.264 and no H.265/HEVC videos then this should be alright.

I wouldn’t expect wonders from the hardware transcoder. The chip is quite old and these older implementations did have picture quality issues.

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