AMD CPU update from 2400 mhz 4c to 4100mhz worth it?

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Have a couple year old system that is choking a bit. No gaming but streaming. I use it for general use and my various servers, PLEX, Serviio and Emby reside on it feeding my Roku 4K display. I see all 4 cores hitting close to 100% occasionally and from time to time the TV buffers. At this point I have not firmly decided on a server, I'm leaning toward Plex, and when I decide I will loose the others. Looking at cutting the cord so I might potentially add a 3T hard drive to use with my Silicon dust quad tuner and use the system as a DVR.

The MB is an Asus A88x-Pro and can support up to 4100mhz processor. Currently running on 8G of memory looking to double that too. Operating system is Linux Mint. I'm guessing the most bang for the buck would be adding memory, DDR3, but wondering about the CPU. Thoughts?
 
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That's a 4.1ghz quad , there is no better cpu available for your board.

Is any transcoding being done on the server side? if Youre transcoding 4k content via software (hardware Transcoding is only available with a plex paid subscription) then it's going to kill any cpu that is not high end.
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CPU AMD A10-7700K Radeon R7, 10 Compute cores 4C+6G x 2 Is what the system info reports. Got the box around here somewhere, but other system info shows 2400Mhz. tat is what I'm basing my decision on.

lshw reports:
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD A10-7700K Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 43
bus info: cpu@0
version: AMD A10-7700K Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G
slot: FM2+
size: 1900MHz
capacity: 4100MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: x86-64 fpu
 
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That's a 4.1ghz quad , there is no better cpu available for your board.

Is any transcoding being done on the server side? if Youre transcoding 4k content via software (hardware Transcoding is only available with a plex paid subscription) then it's going to kill any cpu that is not high end.
 
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Thanks. I thought the 1900Mhz was the speed. I guess I'll dump $$ into memory, that has always been lacking.

I'm going to have to do more investigation of PLEX, other sources indicate 4k content should not need to be transcoded to play on a 4k display and one youtuber' is using a $80 discarded office computer with no transcoding issues.
 
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If there's no transcoding you honestly shouldn't be seeing 100% usage any of the time.

That apu should be absolutely fine,for a straight streaming box/server.

So the roku tv ?

Are you just using an inbuilt dlna function to connect to the pc ?
Connected via wireless or cabled via Ethernet ??

If there's no transcoding going on & the tvbia handling 4k content natively then an old core2duo with 4gb ram would work so no reason that amd apu can't handle it at all.
 
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In doing more research I've found a number of people have similar issues when subtitles are turned on. I'll have to try watching something with them turned off and see how the system reacts. Compare that to Emby. There should be no reason to transcode most if not all stuff.
 
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