Minecraft and NAS Server

[Denied012]

This is my first time posting, so correct me if I do something wrong, but I'm building a Minecraft server for around 10ish people, and would like to move my media server to it as well. My question is what CPU to go with? The Minecraft server will be vanilla, and the media server will be using emby and only doing a couple streams at a time, maybe 2 or 3 at 1080p, but I would like 4k capabilities in the future.

Thanks!!

[TehDwonz]

4 minutes ago, Denied012 said:

This is my first time posting, so correct me if I do something wrong, but I'm building a Minecraft server for around 10ish people, and would like to move my media server to it as well. My question is what CPU to go with? The Minecraft server will be vanilla, and the media server will be using emby and only doing a couple streams at a time, maybe 2 or 3 at 1080p, but I would like 4k capabilities in the future.

Thanks!!

On top of Minecraft, the requirements for Emby are going to be similar to Plex. 

From https://support.plex.tv/articles/201774043-what-kind-of-cpu-do-i-need-for-my-server/

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Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark score requirements are a good guideline for the following average source file:

• 4K HDR (50Mbps, 10-bit HEVC) file: 17000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)
• 4K SDR (40Mbps, 8-bit HEVC) file: 12000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)
• 1080p (10Mbps, H.264) file: 2000 PassMark score
• 720p (4Mbps, H.264) file: 1500 PassMark score

The CPU Benchmark website is a good resource to see what sort of PassMark score a particular processor received.

Related Page: CPUbenchmark.net

This assumes no dedicated hardware video acceleration. Not sure on the Emby situation, but hardware encoding requires the paid version.

[kompetenzbolzen]

for minecraft, you want as high a CPU clock as you can get, since it's not multithreaded. So go for a moderately new Ryzen or intel core.

If it can run minecraft, transcoding shouldn't be a problem.

[Denied012]

23 minutes ago, TehDwonz said:

On top of Minecraft, the requirements for Emby are going to be similar to Plex. 

From https://support.plex.tv/articles/201774043-what-kind-of-cpu-do-i-need-for-my-server/

This assumes no dedicated hardware video acceleration. Not sure on the Emby situation, but hardware encoding requires the paid version.

Emby does require premium to use hardware acceleration, how many cores do you think would be enough for both of them? 

[TehDwonz]

1 minute ago, Denied012 said:

Emby does require premium to use hardware acceleration, how many cores do you think would be enough for both of them? 

As @kompetenzbolzen said, Minecraft runs on a single thread, so for that side of things, those MHz and IPC are what counts. ie, as modern and fast a CPU as you can reasonably afford. In meeting that requirement, you should probably meet or exceed the Emby requirements. You'll want 1 core per video stream you intend to allow in parallel.
Running on Windows, I'd leave a minimum of 2 cores for Windows itself and background tasks.

 

Windows = 2

Emby = 3-4

Minecraft server = 1

 

So you're looking at 6 to 8 cores. If you have Emby premium, then an Intel i7+ so you can use the iGPU acceleration. If you don't have premium or don't care about HW acc, then you could potentially save a bit by going AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen.