Wow, I was not expecting a difference for the passmark to be that huge between the 10900K and 3900X.
All local clients will be direct stream and maybe 3-4 remote 1080P streams from HEVC sources (1080p).
Good tip on the P2000 - I will keep this in mind. What concerns me now is the stability and uptime between the 10900K and 3900X. Kinda moot point if the server crashes or hangs often. I am betting many concerns and posts are from first time setup (some not all).
I did some reading and found VM gaming with 4/6 cores with concurrent transcoding with Plex (