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When Plex starts buffering or stuttering, it's easy to assume that hardware problems are to blame, especially if you're using a NAS. But that often isn't the case. With Plex, the overall setup is so ...

I'm in the design phase of building out a server for colocation, and one of the things that would be potentially useful on it would be hardware video transcoding. I don't want to use Intel, and ARM ...

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Three of the fastest workstation CPUs on Earth slug it out in an AI-powered transcoding benchmark we designed to scale from dual-core to 64-core systems. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...