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Yeah, feck.

What sucks is that at this point I have to upgrade all the RAM as well, cause it's DDR3. Basically doubles the cost of the upgrade.
Might be interested in getting the old RAM off you. I need to check if this thing takes DDR3 or DDR3L. I knew at one point but have forgotten.
 
Coconut oil...
And it's pretty close. Go look at the pool of oil sitting on top of your jar.

edit: This is more eloquent answer though.
When we talk about fats and oils, there is only one distinction: a fat is solid at room temperature and an oil is not. Coconut "oil", if it is refined and not fractionated (see below), is actually about 91% saturated fat. This means at room temperature, unprocessed coconut "oil" is (mostly) solid and makes it really a fat.

In order for coconut oil to be truly an oil, it needs to be fractionated. In this process, you take your raw coconut fat up to a certain temperature and remove the solid parts, leaving an oil. This oil is lower in saturated fatty acids and hence its melting curve drops a couple of degrees. Do this fractionation right and you will be left with an oilier substance, which is probably what you are using if your coconut product is liquid.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-coconut-fat-and-coconut-oil
 
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thats an old proc (i have a couple in my desktop type pcs, theyre great, but plex could use more). Im amazed you got 10 streams on that. Its a solid passmark score for what it is though.

I wouldnt upgrade unless you can at least double the passmark to 12ishk.

A 200ish dollar option that lets you do that in a desktop form factor is a E5-26xx V2 proc (100-150), with an x79 desktop mobo (30-50)

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v2+@+2.50GHz&id=2152
 
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thats an old proc (i have a couple in my desktop type pcs, theyre great, but plex could use more). Im amazed you got 10 streams on that. Its a solid passmark score for what it is though.

I wouldnt upgrade unless you can at least double the passmark to 12ishk.

A 200ish dollar option that lets you do that in a desktop form factor is a E5-26xx V2 proc (100-150), with an x79 desktop mobo (30-50)

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v2+@+2.50GHz&id=2152
Where do I find this gear? Ebay? Reddit?
 
Looks like I found a Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 on Ebay for $155. I'll try bidding on it.

then find an x79 mobo thats known to work with it (should be most of em) and you're good to go with your existing ram, and you dont get into serverworld weirdness where you need ssi-eeb boards and ecc regged ram, etc.

unless you want to go dually at some point :D that is a dual processor capable chip