MacPro 2010 for Plex Server?

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Hello,

I recently got a Mac Pro 2010:
2 x 2.66 Ghz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5650
28GBs of Ram
128GB SSD for OSX El Capitan
1TB HDD
2TB HDD
3TB HDD

Would this work good for a Plex server?

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Should work fine. I still have a 2009 Mac Mini 2GHZ Core2duo with 4g Ram test machine that runs El Capitan and PMS without issue.

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Awesome, I can’t really find the processors for a passmark test. Any idea how many 1080p steams this could handle at once?

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Are you sure you have the CPU model number right? According to Intel, that’s a 2.26GHz 4-core processor, not 6: http://ark.intel.com/products/40200/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5520-8M-Cache-2_26-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI
If so, the passmark score is 4452:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5520+%40+2.27GHz

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I have a mac pro 3.1 2008 model.
Dual quad core xeons clocked @ 3.2 ghz
32 gb memory
512gb geforce 680 ti
1Tb samsung evo ssd

This works fantastic for plex, i have all my media on a 18 bay synology nas using nfs shares.
I make a 24gb ramdisk for transcoding and have has 10 simultanious streams going without issue.
My isp gives me 100/20 down/up Mbps.
I have both my nics teamed for throughput as well.
Locally i direct play all my remote clients set their bandwidth to 2/3 Mbps on their plex clients.

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@gbooker02 said:
Are you sure you have the CPU model number right? According to Intel, that’s a 2.26GHz 4-core processor, not 6: Intel Xeon Processor E5520 8M Cache 2.26 GHz 5.86 GTs Intel QPI Product Specifications
If so, the passmark score is 4452:
PassMark - Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27GHz - Price performance comparison

You are right, I had the model wrong.

Correct info below…
Introduction Date: July 27, 2010* Discontinued Date: June 11, 2012
Processors: 2 (12 Cores) Architecture: 64-Bit
Geekbench 2 (32): 20294 Geekbench 2 (64): 22605
Geekbench 3 (32): 2123 Geekbench 3 (32): 22383
Geekbench 3 (64): 2326 Geekbench 3 (64): 25131
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Processor Type: 6 Core Xeon X5650 x2
Turbo Boost: 3.06 GHz Custom Speeds: N/A
Processor Upgrade: LGA 1366 Sockets FPU: Integrated

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Ok, with the E5650, the passmark per CPU is 7609: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5650+%40+2.67GHz Given you have 2 of these, you should have no issues simultaneously transcoding 4 or 5 1080p streams at once if you wanted.