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I'd be very tempted by a cheap server.
Lenovo have been doing cashback for a while. Currently £125 on a '70A50022UK'
https://www.ballicom.co.uk/70a50022uk-lenovo-thinkserver-ts140-70a5.p1110065.htmlSo you'd get it for about £250. The CPU alone is about £200 (roughly = Core i5 4690)
It would be slight overkill, but it's a good starting point / consideration. And it's a great platform if you do upgrade the memory or put in an SSD after. Would be rapid.
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I know nothing about building computers, so i'm looking for some guidance...
I'm specing up a computer to run a plex server (this is all it will do, nothing else). I would prefer it to run windows as I can at least trouble shoot that, but beyond that I don't really know what I am looking for. Idea is to minimise the cost as well as ongoing running cost, so want something that can handle the transcoding but isn't massive overkill, anyone got any good starting points?!