Minecraft Server in old xeons

[Histri]

Hi there, 

I just bought an old dual Xeon Board with Up to 12gb RAM ddr1 

And after watching Linus building his Minecraftserver I thought It might bei working 

 

Specs: 

2x Intel Xeon SL7HU (1C/2Th)

ATI Rage XL onboard Video 

Gigabyte 8IPXDREL Rev.1.0 (the one with only one PCI Slot) 

 

I know its really underpowered but Itmight bei fun to try this out

[TheGlenlivet]

Minimum specs -

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Server/Requirements

It would run it for a small group on a Lan with a light weight OS.  Probably.

 

[Guest]

I don't think it would work, 2 cores is so little you'd have an incredibly slow server. Maybe for a really old game.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Thats is basically a pentium 4 system. Its really old. You can try it, but id stay far away from hardware that old.

[jaslion]

19 minutes ago, Histri said:

Hi there, 

I just bought an old dual Xeon Board with Up to 12gb RAM ddr1 

And after watching Linus building his Minecraftserver I thought It might bei working 

 

Specs: 

2x Intel Xeon SL7HU (1C/2Th)

ATI Rage XL onboard Video 

Gigabyte 8IPXDREL Rev.1.0 (the one with only one PCI Slot) 

 

I know its really underpowered but Itmight bei fun to try this out

This is pentium 4 level stuff. It's gonna really really struggle to run a current day minecraft server. You can try but from my own experience form years ago using a stronger p4 (compared to your xeon) it was really struggling with 2 people on minecraft 1.6.4.

[Animal901]

6 hours ago, Histri said:

Hi there, 

I just bought an old dual Xeon Board with Up to 12gb RAM ddr1 

And after watching Linus building his Minecraftserver I thought It might bei working 

 

Specs: 

2x Intel Xeon SL7HU (1C/2Th)

ATI Rage XL onboard Video 

Gigabyte 8IPXDREL Rev.1.0 (the one with only one PCI Slot) 

 

I know its really underpowered but Itmight bei fun to try this out

You could probably put 6 gigs of ram  in it. You'll need an ide to sata adapter.  Definitely go ssd. It would be funny to put windows 10 on it. If it has the instruction set to boot.  It wouldn't be very powerful and a haswell i3 could top it. That board will probably not take a standard atx psu. I bet it would still be a fun build..

[ImAyaanKhan]

8 hours ago, Histri said:

Hi there, 

I just bought an old dual Xeon Board with Up to 12gb RAM ddr1 

And after watching Linus building his Minecraftserver I thought It might bei working 

 

Specs: 

2x Intel Xeon SL7HU (1C/2Th)

ATI Rage XL onboard Video 

Gigabyte 8IPXDREL Rev.1.0 (the one with only one PCI Slot) 

 

I know its really underpowered but Itmight bei fun to try this out

I'm not here to rip you apart for your part choices, however I would recommend you use paper spigot on minecraft 1.12.2 for the server, as 1.12 performs better than 1.8, and paper spigot is a high performance fork of spigot built for optimization.

 

That being said, go for it. You'll be surprised. I managed to get 2 players on (couldn't get anyone else besides one guy to help) with 20tps with those same settings and ~10 plugins running on a sandy bridge mobile cpu (i3-2330m) 

[Histri]

7 hours ago, Animal901 said:

You could probably put 6 gigs of ram  in it. You'll need an ide to sata adapter.  Definitely go ssd. It would be funny to put windows 10 on it. If it has the instruction set to boot.  It wouldn't be very powerful and a haswell i3 could top it. That board will probably not take a standard atx psu. I bet it would still be a fun build..

I have an old pcie SATA Card 

And some wd blue HDDs 

So I will try this combi 

 

The only Problem is

I really don't find pga603 cooler in the cheap 

Maybe I am going to ziptie a 604 cooler on it 

 

 

[Animal901]

2 Faster cpu

 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F263561567764

 

1 cooler and cpu

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F232407271547

 

No fan cooler 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254267005158

 

You could really build a much better system with these prices. An i3 4130 would sweep the floor. I think everyone is close to chunking those. All's well that's still haswell...