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A pentium can handle about 2 transcoded streams while an i3 can handle about 4. If they're not being transcoded, then a celeron is enough. 

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I am in the process of parting out a home NAS build that I will be putting FreeNAS on. I plan on using PLEX for streaming and wanted to know what type of CPU I should be getting so 2-3 people can stream. Right now I am looking at the Intel Celeron G1840 and just wanted to make sure that was enough. 

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A pentium can handle about 2 transcoded streams while an i3 can handle about 4. If they're not being transcoded, then a celeron is enough. 

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Looks like it might be better to go with an i3 then just to be safe. Thanks for the help

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