Hey,
Can anyone tell me how well plex would run on “Intel Xeon E3-1225v2 | 4c/4t | 3.2GHz /3.6GHz | 16GB DDR3 1333 MH”
How many 1080p streams would it be able to handle? Can it handle at least 2?
It looks like this processor achieves a Passmark score of around 6,800. Typically a 1080 stream will function well around 2,000. You should be ok with two streams, likely up to three.
That processor has a Passmark of 6834 Which is OK.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1225+V2+%40+3.20GHz
Plex needs a Passmark of 2000 for each 1080p transcoded stream not taking hardware acceleration into account.
Therefore that processor should handle two 1080p transcoded streams just fine.
Having said that I generally avoid setting up new Plex servers with processors whose Passmark is below 9000 simply because you can get that level pretty cheaply now. I also try very hard, even if the user is not currently a Plex Pass holder, to make sure that hardware acceleration is available for the computer I choose.
There is little worse than setting up a server and finding at some later time that it is under powered. In a media setting the server is not the place to try to squeeze savings. It is too expensive a choice to make a mistake and have to fix it later.
Go big, or stay home.
‘Borderline’ horsepower specs leave something to be desired the first time you run into a VC-1 or HEVC Video Stream… what looks good on the design paper suddenly turns into what’s swiped across the toilet paper when you least expect it.
Plex says 2000 per 1080 stream. Make that 5000 with a decent single core rating and then you can feel pretty good about those two streams.
It’s MUCH better to have and not need, than to need and not have.
If you’re really serious - get lots of horsepower so you can wade through Handbrake encodes as you create Direct Play material for all your devices - then you can throw streams out there until you run out of network/internet bandwidth while your CPU sits around with it’s feet up on the desk.
All of you guys gave such good answers! 
Thank you very much.
This would be better then I suppose: Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 (It will mostly only be 1 stream at the time - max 2 but rarely)
@GreenParkIsBlue said:
All of you guys gave such good answers!Thank you very much.
This would be better then I suppose: Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 (It will mostly only be 1 stream at the time - max 2 but rarely)
Yes that is better with a Passmark of 9507 and a Single Thread Rating of 1946. I believe it should handle what you state as your needs just fine.
As I said get all the processing power you can within whatever budget limits you have set. Processing power is not like debt, you can never have too much.
