Celeron G3950 for Minecraft Server

[Celui]

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I have an old asus z170-p motherboard with a celeron g3950, I was wondering how well it would work to host a minecraft server with about 15 players max, since I have nothing else to do with it.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Jurrunio]

Awful. A low frequency dual core like that cant even run singleplayer well, let alone 15.

[Celui]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Awful. A low frequency dual core like that cant even run singleplayer well, let alone 15.

I figured as much, deep down in my heart I was just hoping that it had some sort of use I guess. Just needed the external confirmation

[Void Master]

10 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Awful. A low frequency dual core like that cant even run singleplayer well, let alone 15.

Not really, a core 2 duo e8400 can run single player in excess of 80fps.

16 minutes ago, Celui said:

Title

I have an old asus z170-p motherboard with a celeron g3950, I was wondering how well it would work to host a minecraft server with about 15 players max, since I have nothing else to do with it.

 

Thanks in advance!

If it's a vanilla server, with a reasonable render distance and ram (A cheap SSD would really help with world loading/saving) maybe it could run about 5-8 players. But a Pentium would've been much better.

9 minutes ago, Celui said:

I figured as much, deep down in my heart I was just hoping that it had some sort of use I guess. Just needed the external confirmation

It doesn't hurt to try, but if you can grab something like a quad core i5 for cheap it would be worlds better. (or even a Pentium)

[Jurrunio]

7 minutes ago, Void Master said:

Not really, a core 2 duo e8400 can run single player in excess of 80fps.

frame rate doesnt mean much in minecraft, missing redstone ticks does. Slow CPU suffers from the latter, not the former.

[Void Master]

11 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

frame rate doesnt mean much in minecraft, missing redstone ticks does. Slow CPU suffers from the latter, not the former.

Well it really depends on how complex your redstone is. if you are building a secret entrance, any pc could handle that. But if you are running your mega piston fully automated farm madness or blowing up stuff (mods also bring high end pcs to there knees) then you need a good CPU however it's not a big deal to your average joe exploring chunks and killing the enderdragon. 

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Void Master said:

Well it really depends on how complex your redstone is. if you are building a secret entrance, any pc could handle that. But if you are running your mega piston fully automated farm madness or blowing up stuff (mods also bring high end pcs to there knees) then you need a good CPU however it's not a big deal to your average joe exploring chunks and killing the enderdragon. 

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Skipping redstone ticks in the game dont affect only redstones, it affects how items drop, physics, chunk loading etc. In a 5010U ( albeit is 2/3 the speed of a G3950 at best), the game skils thousands of redstone ticks in just a couple of minutes and the game (vanilla, of course) is really glitchy at that point. 

[Void Master]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

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Skipping redstone ticks in the game dont affect only redstones, it affects how items drop, physics, chunk loading etc. In a 5010U ( albeit is 2/3 the speed of a G3950 at best), the game skils thousands of redstone ticks in just a couple of minutes and the game (vanilla, of course) is really glitchy at that point. 

That's why i mentioned farms and not insane computer stuff. (auto farms tend to stress cpus when stuff drops) but minecraft runs well on a potato. Idk about your 5010U but it's really playable with low end cpus such as an i3 3220 and cheap low end dgpus.  

EDIT: you should have said "chunk updates" instead of "redstone ticks" because that's the official name for them. (and that's the only name for them that i know)

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, Void Master said:

EDIT: you should have said "chunk updates" instead of "redstone ticks" because that's the official name for them. (and that's the only name for them that i know)

It's redstone ticks, at least that's the word used by the debug screen of Minecraft back then (like 1.6 era?)

 

2 hours ago, Void Master said:

That's why i mentioned farms and not insane computer stuff

I didnt even use any of these things, just loading in a default world is enough to crush the 5010U

[Oberfail]

You can use Tuinity to run the server which helps a lot. Also pregenerating the world with a plugin like Chunky would help even more.

 

The cpu for sure isnt the fastest, but i've ran servers on even slower hardware. It all comes down how much effort you put into optimizing it.