Cant seem to find any refurbished p0043w in a decent price range would a hp -a0006 give me the same results
No, the AMD CPU does not have QuickSync.
Any alternative PCs you could recommend has it impossible to find a hp 290-p0043w in my location cheers
The HP 290 comes in and out of stock often, so itās best just to check back and see if itās in stock or not.
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Im in Europe ??
Was I supposed to discern that somehowā¦?
Lol the just dont seem to be easy to get here has America finding it impossible cheers
Itās a US exclusive computer, thatās why it would be hard to find outside of the US 
well that might be a issue for me 
if you could recommend any alternative that might be easier to buy Iāll greatly appreciate it delighted I find your forum highly informative for what I was looking regarding plex server 
Iām looking to turn one of these into a Plex server for QuickSync. Is there any issue with keeping Windows? Iām not really comfortable with Linux (yet) but is there a real performance decline going with Windows?
Also, I already have a shuttle xpc sh67h3 machine with an i7 3770. I know that QuickSync has come a long ways recently. Would this Celeron G4900 be a worthwhile step up for QuickSync quality and capability?
*edit: anyone??
Yea and like @Scarecr0w I also checked with direct streamed audio but that honestly didnāt seem to add much, maybe 5% tops although it was hard to say for sure with all the bouncing around.
I recall seeing someone saying a Ryzen could do hw transcode in Plex. Any truth to that? Canāt find where it was posted.
Itās not supported (and probably wonāt be for a long time) and even so, the hardware transcoding looks pretty bad in comparison.
In the event someone needs to know, I put a 2.5gbe pcie card (Link) in and fired up Windows. It was natively recognized, but I donāt have a second card to test its speed.
This keeps the x16 open for HBA or whatever else you would want to put in there.
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I wonder if I can add 8G RAM on top of 4G that I currently have, making it 12G in total. Has anyone tried this yet? Does it work?
yes works fine
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Yes, thatās typically what I recommend!
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Picked one up yesterday on eBayā¦$113ā¦Now I just need the other pieces (mem, ssd) to run PMSā¦then offload it off of the NAS.
any benefit of installing 16gb mem or not worth the extra $
Still looking for one more for docker stuff
Thanks all
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Vague request. For what purpose? Regardless of your answer: No, itās not a good alternative. The 290 is high value for performance. A T30 does not have that same value at that price, itās built for server purposes. Look for used Dell Optiplex for an alternative to what HP 290 people are doing.