I have PMS on my regular desktop, since i found Plex. Sometimes when wifey wants to look at her series on Plex on iPad while i’m gaming for example, my CPU spikes to 100% obvious while gaming.
Since Plex are heading for Kodi now, i’m looking to give my parents access to my Plex Share.
So i’m looking for a NUC that would suit my needs, and to be come my Plex Server.
I’m looking at Intel NUC NUC6i3SYH (i3-6100U - 3904 passmark)
Would it be enough? or do i need the i5 one? And for you who have an NUC, hows the noise from it during transcode. Is it much?
WIll be having my Library on my PC sharing as a NAS.
I suppose if its a highbit rate 720p it would still transcode. The rule of thumb is 720p trancode would be 2000 passmark rating. With that NUC you will be able to do two streams.
@lqvnguyen said:
Trancode 720p down to what? If you already at 720p for your content would you not be direct playing/streaming
According to PlexPy PLEX transcoded a 720p movie when my mate streamed it to his ChromeCast.
PlexPy tell you what it is transcoding down to or the same 720p?
@lqvnguyen said:
Trancode 720p down to what? If you already at 720p for your content would you not be direct playing/streaming
According to PlexPy PLEX transcoded a 720p movie when my mate streamed it to his ChromeCast.
PlexPy tell you what it is transcoding down to or the same 720p?
Video
Stream: transcode
Width: 1280
Height: 536
Codec: h264
ahh. never mind then, cause he has a sucky tv plex transcoded it?
Just bought the NUC6i7KYK also. Has a Samsung SSD too. 8GB RAM. Awesome, very happy. Syncing to devices takes less than half the time compared to my previous Lenovo i3 mini-PC. I use it as a dual PMS and OpenPHT client, plugged directly in to TV via HDMI. Loading of movie posters in OpenPHT is lightning fast, almost instantaneous. PC cold boots in ~30 seconds (faster if I use sleep function which I’m still a little uncertain about). Fan noise during transcodes/sync isn’t too bad although I don’t mind a bit of light noise for 4 minutes while it syncs a movie.
I do intend to load it up much as I can to find it’s breaking point. Multiple simultaneous transcodes and see what that does to the Open PHT UI.
200Mbps fibre broadband (up & down) coming in a few weeks
@trumpy81 said:
I presume you simply want to alleviate the CPU usage while gaming issue. In which case the NUC should achieve that at least.
The Intel NUC NUC6i3SYH (i3-6100U) would be good for a single low-med bitrate 1080p transcode. If your media Direct Plays without transcoding, then you should not have an issue with using that NUC. If more transcoding is a requirement, then you should look at the i5 NUC or better.
Leaving the files on the PC would mean that you would have to leave the PC and NUC running 24/7 in order to always have access to Plex.
It might be worthwhile investing in a USB drive to attach to the NUC and have the latest media saved to that and any older media saved on the PC. That way you could turn off the PC when it wasn’t needed and you would still have access to the latest media.
This is all fine but are you saying the same applies while gaming concurrently ? A modern top end game would hardly run smoothly at high res on an i3 even without plex transcoding. I dont see how both can co-exist on the same hardware and run concurrently. I just bought an i7 NUC and even that is not well regarded as a gaming machine (would cope just about but not at full res). Or are we saying the NUC is for Plex only and gaming stays on the desktop.
Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark score requirements are a good guideline for the following average source file:
I have connected my Nuc to the local network, I have installed the PIex app on my 4k TV but when I tried to run a 4k UtraHD movie (67 GB release) I got a message saying that server is not powerful enough, also my PMS is running on Linux Mint. Could sombody tell me where could be the problem?
hopefully it comes tomorrow 
