Minecraft server

[kes2006]

So I have this dell poweredge 2950 with dual Xeon e5420 sould i buy higher clocked quad cores or dual core what’s worth it

[kelvinhall05]

MC servers only care about singlecore performance and also benefit from a high clockspeed. Any 771 CPU will struggle to hand more than just a couple players even on a Paper server with very few plugins.

[WhitetailAni]

As said by @kelvinhall05, having a CPU with amazing single-core performance is much better than having lots of cores.

I have a Phenom II X4 955 in my Minecraft Java server, and I noticed a benefit from running 2 cores @ 4.4 GHz vs 4 cores @ 3.95 GHz.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

5 minutes ago, kes2006 said:

So I have this dell poweredge 2950 with dual Xeon e5420 sould i buy higher clocked quad cores or dual core what’s worth it

Depending on the size of your ambitions, an old 2600k or similar will do you well. The 2.5GHz of the e5420 just isn't enough. It's mostly about the single core performance, but I wouldn't go dual core though, the system still has other stuff to keep up with. Personally running a 2600k for an average 10 people online semi-vanilla server with very little to no hickups.

[kes2006]

6 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

MC servers only care about singlecore performance and also benefit from a high clockspeed. Any 771 CPU will struggle to hand more than just a couple players even on a Paper server with very few plugins.

I’m only playing with 1 person on the server 

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, kes2006 said:

I’m only playing with 1 person on the server 

Then just go with the CPU with the highest clockspeed.

[kes2006]

5 minutes ago, Hans Christian | Teri said:

Depending on the size of your ambitions, an old 2600k or similar will do you well. The 2.5GHz of the e5420 just isn't enough. It's mostly about the single core performance, but I wouldn't go dual core though, the system still has other stuff to keep up with. Personally running a 2600k for an average 10 people online semi-vanilla server with very little to no hickups.

I only play with 1 person

[kes2006]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Then just go with the CPU with the highest clockspeed.

I saw some 2,83ghz quad cores for €25 euros should I get that

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Just now, kes2006 said:

I only play with 1 person

Then you should be more than fine. Hell, I probably wouldn't even run a separate box for that.

[kes2006]

4 minutes ago, kes2006 said:

I saw some 2,83ghz quad cores for €25 euros should I get that

Well I just saw that guy was selling them for that amount for just 1 cpu I found some 2,93ghz cpus for 10 euros so