Do I need a good graphics card for a game server box?

[patcat127]

Title says most, I'm going to use my old PC parts as a game server to host minecraft servers for my friends, possibly discord bots and other things like that, likely running a linux distribution if I can set it up properly... my old CPU it'd be running off is an AMD cpu from before the days of integrated graphics, would a cheap, budget level card be enough (basically, do server programs like that need GPU power?)

[GoldenLag]

find a cheap GCN GPU

 

like hd 7850 is a cheap unit. 

 

anything 7800 series and beyond. essentially.

 

its GCN which will give you driver support for quite some time. also Linux is somewhat AMD centered

 

edit: from the used market mind you

[myselfolli]

25 minutes ago, patcat127 said:

Title says most, I'm going to use my old PC parts as a game server to host minecraft servers for my friends, possibly discord bots and other things like that, likely running a linux distribution if I can set it up properly... my old CPU it'd be running off is an AMD cpu from before the days of integrated graphics, would a cheap, budget level card be enough (basically, do server programs like that need GPU power?)

Short anwswer: no

 

Long answer: It depends. A minecraft will typically not use any GPU power (like at all). Depending on which OS you'll go with you won't really need any graphics output at all. I run a server on my headless Ubuntu machine, which I can SSH into, as such my server doesn't need any graphics output. MC servers mostly depend on your bandwith, RAM and CPU, not much else.

[AirSocial]

Get something like a HD 6450 for $10. That would do fine,