specs for dedicated plex server

[JayBultee]

i want te make a dedicated plex server and i have a few spare parts.

i have an intel pentium 4600 and 8 gigs of 2400 mhz single stick of ram 

is this enough to stream a 4k hdr 10 video from in house

 

if use plex out of home ill always use the download feature so it only has to handel in house mostly one or 2 streams simultaneously and mby one out house download in the meantime are these specs enough or should i try to find a stronger cpu like a second hand i5 7500?

[tikker]

If your in-house devices can Direct Play the content then you don't need much horsepower. Since you already have it I say just set it up and try it out.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you need transcoding? If no, its more than plenty, if yes you probably need to use hardware transcoding which need plex pass. And the igpu might not support hardwarwe encoding/decoding depending on the exact codec and settings.

 

If you have the hardware, why not try it?

[Hairless Monkey]

G4600 is Kaby Lake, which means the iGPU (HD 630) has full support for encode and decode of H264 and H265 4K HDR 10 content. I know because I use this chip in my HTPC. Without a Plex Pass you should be able to stream it in-home at the original quality. If you need transcoding for devices that don't support 4K and/or HDR, then you'll need a Plex Pass and you'll probably have to enable hardware encoding/decoding.