muncraft

[bob33]

Budget (including currency): 700

Country: uk

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: muncraft 100 player

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): hhh

 

[eeeee1]

if you mean minecraft and you are building a server intended to fit 100 players, your best bet may be intel because minecraft runs best on single thread performance

[bob33]

yes minecraft

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

if you mean minecraft and you are building a server intended to fit 100 players, your best bet may be intel because minecraft runs best on single thread performance

This was true until a weekish ago when the AMD 5000 series CPUs launched.. they have better single threaded performance now compared to anything intel offers currently.  

[eeeee1]

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

This was true until a weekish ago when the AMD 5000 series CPUs launched.. they have better single threaded performance now compared to anything intel offers currently.  

but if you only have 700 pounds...

[emkirsh]

If you're building a machine to be exclusively used as a server, you will want to build a server, not a computer. Therefore you can cut Windows out of your budget, along with a GPU. You'll need a decent processor, but for Minecraft, what really matters most is RAM for more players. ESPECIALLY if you plan on running lots of plugins or mods, you will need a certain amount of RAM per player. 

 

Whatever you're building, you will want a good processor. I'm not going to offer an opinion on Intel vs. AMD because I haven't been fortunate enough to try out AMD's new 5000 series CPUs. But if it's just a server, you want ECC RAM.

 

Cooling will also be important.

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

but if you only have 700 pounds...

Easy

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	£311.51 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550M S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£77.99 @ Box Limited
Memory	ADATA XPG GAMMIX D10 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	£114.91 @ CCL Computers
Storage	Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£47.99 @ Amazon UK
Case	Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	£35.47 @ Scan.co.uk
Power Supply	be quiet! System Power 9 400 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	£45.24 @ More Computers
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£633.11
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-21 16:36 GMT+0000

with a used video card.

 

However, for 100 users, £700 really isn't gonna cut it. This 5600X with 32GN of ram might serve about 40 users adequately but it's really hard to get appropriate hardware on this sort of budget.