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Chromebox vs HTPC

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Okay so I have an old cryptocurrency mining machine that I pulled apart, and I was considering putting it back together in a small-ish case. Problem is, I don't know if my system (I took out the GPU) is sufficient for streaming/transcoding. It has an AMD Sempron 145 processor with 2GB PC3-10600 DD3. HDD, not SSD.

I would need to find a small case though. Good thing is I already own the mobo and memory and CPU.

*OR*

I buy a Chromebox or something.

This computer would be for media streaming (headless itself, but streaming to my XBOX/Roku/etc), and I'd also maybe run a web server or some random services.

What is the best choice?
 
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Don't quote me on this, but I don't think Plex Media Server and similar programs work on the Chromeboxes without installing Windows.
 
PCunicorn said:
Don't quote me on this, but I don't think Plex Media Server and similar programs work on the Chromeboxes without installing Windows.
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You can put the Plex client on ChromeOS for sure.

But PMS is for serving content, not playing it.

You can put Ubuntu (or dual boot ChromeOS/Ubuntu) and put PMS on top of Ubuntu. I'm not sure how good it would be as a server. Probably has enough power but you need external storage for it.

You can also put a mix of XBMC or Ubuntu w/ XMBC on it.

It has decent hardware for playback, I would use it for a Plex Client or XBMC.
 
I would be serving content, not playing it (I'd be using it headless). Is it enough to transcode?
 
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