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Limp Gawd
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I just recently threw together a ESXi host, and have been playing around with it.
Specs:
Phenom II X4 965
8gb DDR3 1333 (soon to be 12-16gb)
Biostar TA970
2x Intel PCI gigabit NICs (adding PCIe cards later)
Right now I have Plex loaded up in a Win7 64bit VM with just two cores shared to it.
This seems fine for my TV shows, but blue ray rips and DVD rips are left to my media server (in sig) with its Core i3 2100 (and its intel quick sync). One blue-ray rip casting to a Chromecast eats the cpu alive sometimes.
My streaming devices involve the 3 Chromecasts, multiple android tablets and phones with the Plex app and Chrome browser itself. usually 2-3 streams max here. The biggie is the chromecast in the living room.
My idea is to, turn my media server into strictly a file host and upgrade the ESXi host to a 8 core AMD FX. And give Plex 8 core of the FX cpu.
My question is, will I see an improvement going from the Core i3 2100 to 4 cores of the FX cpu inside of ESXi?
Specs:
Phenom II X4 965
8gb DDR3 1333 (soon to be 12-16gb)
Biostar TA970
2x Intel PCI gigabit NICs (adding PCIe cards later)
Right now I have Plex loaded up in a Win7 64bit VM with just two cores shared to it.
This seems fine for my TV shows, but blue ray rips and DVD rips are left to my media server (in sig) with its Core i3 2100 (and its intel quick sync). One blue-ray rip casting to a Chromecast eats the cpu alive sometimes.
My streaming devices involve the 3 Chromecasts, multiple android tablets and phones with the Plex app and Chrome browser itself. usually 2-3 streams max here. The biggie is the chromecast in the living room.
My idea is to, turn my media server into strictly a file host and upgrade the ESXi host to a 8 core AMD FX. And give Plex 8 core of the FX cpu.
My question is, will I see an improvement going from the Core i3 2100 to 4 cores of the FX cpu inside of ESXi?
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