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Hey Guys,

 

Not sure if this is the right sub-directory, and I know this must've been asked dozens of times but i'm thinking of building a game-server that can preferably be up 24/7 with low energy use.

I'd be planning on running a Minecraft, CS:GO, DayZ or any other server all the time, with at least 1 running 24/7, depending on the need. The server would be ~5 slot capacity.

I'm asking because i'm usually the guy that hosts servers as I have the know-how when I play with my friends and I have requests with having them run more often than when my PC is on.

My Internet is consumer grade, home internet which is 65Mbps down and <30Mbps up.

I don't want to rent servers as I don't like monthly costs - i'd rather have a one-off payment that can always be re-purposed into a NAS at home (optional) when not used for servers. Not to mention, running a server while playing the same game doesn't help in terms of fps, even though I have a good PC.

 

Any ideas?

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Here's my Micro ATX Game Server that I built. I run a Modded Minecraft server with the DireWolf20 Pack, and can support at least 5 people at once.

 

To be on the safe side though you may want to bump it to an i3 (*edit* which has Hyperthreading, thanks for reminding me @Johannes_Lazor) like the 4130 or 4150, and possibly another 4GB of RAM to again be on the safe side.

 


 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£36.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (£26.58 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£21.17 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£40.25 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £205.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Here's my Micro ATX Game Server that I built. I run a Modded Minecraft server with the DireWolf20 Pack, and can support at least 5 people at once.

 

To be on the safe side though you may want to bump it to a Quad-Core i3 like the 4130 or 4150, and possibly another 4GB of RAM to again be on the safe side.

 

 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£36.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (£26.58 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£21.17 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£40.25 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £205.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-27 17:29 GMT+0000

 

I3's arent Quad cores, They only have 2 cores with hyperthreading.

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I3's arent Quad cores, They only have 2 cores with hyperthreading.

 

Of course, don't mind me and my forgetfulness, but either way, it's twice the number of threads.

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This is what id suggest, These ones should also be able to host several servers as long as they all arent being heavily stressed at the same time becouse of that Xeon and 16gb RAM(Expandable to 32gb if you feel like you need it).
 

 
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1226 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($216.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($49.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Corsair Force LS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6450 1GB Video Card  ($28.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Micro Center) 
Total: $565.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-27 14:10 EDT-0400
 
But it doesnt have the storage you were looking for, It is aimed for for Game hosting in a smaller formfactor.

Here is another version, This has expandability for a total of 6 drives.
 

 
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1226 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($216.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Corsair Force LS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6450 1GB Video Card  ($28.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($37.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Micro Center) 
Total: $578.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-27 14:09 EDT-0400

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|| CPU: Intel i5 4690@4.3Ghz || GPU: Dual ASUS gtx 1080 Strix. || RAM: 16gb (4x4gb) Kingston HyperX Genesis 1600Mhz. || Motherboard: MSI Z97S Krait edition. || OS: Win10 Pro
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Just throwing this out there as a potential alternate solution.

 

 

If you already have a good PC and if you're running Windows 8.1 Pro. It already comes with Hypervisor. Create a VM, allocate 2-4GBs RAM (more if you have more to spare), 1-2 threads (more if you have a better processor like an i7 with 8-16 threads) if you have upwards of 16GB of RAM and put the VM on it's own dedicated  HDD or SSD. Then route networking through to a dedicated NIC card or something. That should cost you less than building a dedicated machine. 

 

Might be worth considering?

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Here's my Micro ATX Game Server that I built. I run a Modded Minecraft server with the DireWolf20 Pack, and can support at least 5 people at once.

 

To be on the safe side though you may want to bump it to an i3 (*edit* which has Hyperthreading, thanks for reminding me @Johannes_Lazor) like the 4130 or 4150, and possibly another 4GB of RAM to again be on the safe side.

 

 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£36.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (£26.58 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£21.17 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£40.25 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £205.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-27 17:29 GMT+0000

 

 

The OS? Linux I presume? :P

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