
If I had wiped the computer and did a fresh install and put on just the few programs I needed I probably would have had better results. Using the my HP had a benchmark of 3875 and in using the machine, 2 people couldn't stream at one time reliably at 640x480. So when I started to research what I wanted, I first went to to plex and used their recommendations was on what roughly the CPU should be. But it wouldn't let me stream and burn and do more than a couple things at one time without stopping to a slow crawl. I had added an external 4TB My Book drive in addition to the 1tb it came with. It was upgraded to windows 10 but had weird quirks. It was a machine that wouldn't allow any upgrades, so I was stuck with what it was and came with.

I used an old HP Intel Core i3-2120 Processor PC I had replaced and decided to use it as a Plex media server. Work sends me out of town semi regularly for weeks at a time, this way I only need WIFi at the hotel and my laptop.

First I wanted to cut cable and go internet only, and then burn my music and DVD library so I can access it anywhere.
