The00Dave

Yeah...one of these days we're gonna get the whole family switched over to bedrock...but for now they are playing on a crazy old Java world that nobody wants to lose. In the end I just have too many piles of junk and hacked together rigs that sorta are good enough, I think I'm going to try and do less of that sort of thing.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I am surprised about the performance because my other 10 year old pc manages much, much better. That one has a Core 2 Quad Q9650 (3.0 GHz) a GT 730 and also 8GB of DDR2 memory. I'll end up keeping the case, ssd and psu (its actually the same PSU you recommended and now that I remember its the only thing I bought). So I'm on the hook for CPU/MB/RAM. I'm guessing from your build you think the Ryzen integrated graphics would be OK?

an EVGA 450.

Budget (including currency): $250 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft java. Literally just Minecraft java. Other details: Here's what I got. Its an assortment of free parts I managed to have in a box: Motherboard: SuperMicro PDSMA (LGA775, E7230) CPU: Intel Pentium D 950 (3.4 GHz) GPU: GeForce GT 710 SSD: WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB SATA III Memory: 4x 2GB DDR2 533MHz OS: Ubuntu 20.10 I'm genuinely surprised how badly this thing runs minecraft and maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree trying to