i am building a minecraft server need help with specs

[khaja571]

i have a i5 660 and 4 gb ram and a hardrive which is 500 gig is this enough for a 10 people or 5 people server  ? ? ? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

If you got the hardware, why not try id. Id guess its fine for a small server.

[Martin06]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you got the hardware, why not try id. Id guess its fine for a small server.

Can you pls help me with my first question? I need help.

 

[TeraBot452]

yup. I run a server on a Q6600 and it runs amazing. (Mostly because of my custom fork of tunity link here https://github.com/xXTeraXx/Picraft-Server-Core)

[XGoodGuyFitz]

4 hours ago, khaja571 said:

i have a i5 660 and 4 gb ram and a hardrive which is 500 gig is this enough for a 10 people or 5 people server  ? ? ? 

Im not sure about the i5 660, but my macbook can run a server with 10 people and play at the same time, while still doing 60fps so you should be fine 

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4 hours ago, Martin06 said:

Can you pls help me with my first question? I need help.

 

Yes, you should be fine with the specs you have listed, unless you want us to put together a parts list.

[GillyMoMo]

21 hours ago, khaja571 said:

i have a i5 660 and 4 gb ram and a hardrive which is 500 gig is this enough for a 10 people or 5 people server  ? ? ? 

Should be more than enough, now if you start adding mods you may consider adding some more RAM. Otherwise this is fine. In fact I suggest getting MineOS and installing it bare metal and going from there. 

[Computernaut]

I would personally add more RAM, as the conventional wisdom is that it's not good to allocate more than half your system memory to one thing. I ran a similar server and used a Core 2 Quad Q9650 with 8 GB of RAM (4 GB allocated) and it worked great. That said, it might be fine with 4 GB in the system and 2 GB allocated; Windows typically needs at least 2 GB of free memory to run well anyway, so I wouldn't recommend trying to allocate 3 GB or something to the server.

[GillyMoMo]

1 minute ago, Computernaut said:

I would personally add more RAM, as the conventional wisdom is that it's not good to allocate more than half your system memory to one thing. I ran a similar server and used a Core 2 Quad Q9650 with 8 GB of RAM (4 GB allocated) and it worked great. That said, it might be fine with 4 GB in the system and 2 GB allocated; Windows typically needs at least 2 GB of free memory to run well anyway, so I wouldn't recommend trying to allocate 3 GB or something to the server.

That was why I suggested the Linux distro. It's easy to run and is web based. Also cuts out the overhead that Windows has. 

[the gamer that is bad]

23 hours ago, khaja571 said:

i have a i5 660 and 4 gb ram and a hardrive which is 500 gig is this enough for a 10 people or 5 people server  ? ? ? 

I am ringing a similar cpu but with more ram and it works just fine