i5-6500 Plex Server

[-linux]

How well would an i5-6500 work as a plex server, and pi hole at the same time?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Should work fine.  probably more then plenty of performance unless you want much transcoding.

[ItTakes2ToMango]

Pretty good unless you plan to have a lot of people streaming from it at the same time

 

It's actually what I run my plex/file storage off of and it runs great. Although I have an old GPU in mine too

[-linux]

14 minutes ago, ItTakes2ToMango said:

Pretty good unless you plan to have a lot of people streaming from it at the same time

 

It's actually what I run my plex/file storage off of and it runs great. Although I have an old GPU in mine too

I have the same build as u lol

[LIGISTX]

5 hours ago, -linux said:

How well would an i5-6500 work as a plex server, and pi hole at the same time?

Plenty. I ran my entire homelab on a i3 6100 for years, that was half a dozen VM’s, one of which was truenas, and one of which was Ubuntu running Plex. I could transcode 3 1080p tv shows (already somewhat compressed) streams to 720p, or one full blue ray quality 1080p movie to 720p , and I only have my Plex VM 2 of my 4 threads. 

[Needfuldoer]

15 hours ago, -linux said:

How well would an i5-6500 work as a plex server, and pi hole at the same time?

Absolutely.

 

The only thing that might tax it is transcoding video on the CPU, but if you've got a Plex Pass subscription you should be offloading that job to Quick Sync on the iGPU anyway.