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Depend on your need. Do your software support multi core processing?
Thanks for the anwser, i really dont know, but i think that the apps dont use multi-core processing, but my main concern is the audio transcoding by Plex.
Vote i7
http://ark.intel.com/compare/75789,65719
IMHO, when it comes to server environment, you can't compare it to desktop-based. like wise: apple vs orange
And you can't compare the performance by the given specs. It all depends on how much computing power the provider allows you to use. If one gives you a full dedicated core, and the other gives you 1/10 core, the answer will be completely different.
You want the dual core. It also really depends if you are going to use plex to transcode on the fly.
Passmark per thread:
Go for the E5 for better performance with Plex. It's typically recommended that you go for 2000 passmark score for every 1080p transcoded stream you have. I find this is quite a generous limit though as my home Plex server runs an FX-4100 and handles lots of stream without breaking a sweat
For encoding with Plex, witch one has the best performance: Debian 64bits or 32 bits?
I'd recommend a dedicated server. Plex will use 100% resources if it's available. A vps company won't like that when resources are shared.
What do you recomend?
the i7 will offer superior performance, the single E5 performs like a single L5420 core
http://browser.primatelabs.com/
My vote goes for i7 unless you are sure to install something that can exploits 6 cores.
plex server itself doesn't utilize more than 1 core, but when a video/audio needs to transcode it will utilize 100% of any available cores.
That's a good point for E5-2620 v2 but after a small chat with a friend i advice you to get info on Intel quicksync technology because i7 has igpu and from what i understood you can use it for transcoding.