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Hardware for home Minecraft Server

Aaralli
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I am planning a build for running a home Minecraft server, but I was wondering if anyone knows if a dedicated gpu does any of the processing for it? I already have a Ryzen 2600X lying around, a power supply, and an AMD R7 270 GPU. Just wondering whether that gpu will slow anything down regarding server lag or speed?

My budget is $250-350 USD for motherboard, RAM, and SSD. I would also like to have it mini ITX, but that's not necessary. I am willing to buy used items, so I've been checking ebay for a B450 mobo and 32gb of RAM.

Any advice of specs or things I should do? I know I need a nice strong internet connection, and I plan on running this 24/7. I also want to figure out how to reduce power consumption while keeping it powerful.

As for peripherals, I am just going to use the monitor, mouse, and keyboard I already have whenever I need to do something.

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Hosting a Java minecraft server has no need for a GPU at all, in fact my server is entirely headless. Its my old 2700x MiniITX system with 16GB or RAM. Regularly has 5-15 people playing on it and the experience is pretty great, or so i'm told. I don't actually play myself. 

 

Just running it in Ubuntu inside of a Docker container and its basically the only thing the server does so I gave Mincraft 12GB of RAM and that's been plenty. Probably overkill but power is cheap here. 

Ryzen 7 7800x3D -  Asus RTX4090 TUF OC- Asrock X670E Taichi - 32GB DDR5-6000CL30 - SuperFlower 1000W - Fractal Torrent - Assassin IV - 42" LG C2 - Windows 11 Pro

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7 minutes ago, Aaralli said:

I am planning a build for running a home Minecraft server, but I was wondering if anyone knows if a dedicated gpu does any of the processing for it? I already have a Ryzen 2600X lying around, a power supply, and an AMD R7 270 GPU. Just wondering whether that gpu will slow anything down regarding server lag or speed?

My budget is $250-350 USD for motherboard, RAM, and SSD. I would also like to have it mini ITX, but that's not necessary. I am willing to buy used items, so I've been checking ebay for a B450 mobo and 32gb of RAM.

Any advice of specs or things I should do? I know I need a nice strong internet connection, and I plan on running this 24/7. I also want to figure out how to reduce power consumption while keeping it powerful.

As for peripherals, I am just going to use the monitor, mouse, and keyboard I already have whenever I need to do something.

you can run minecraft perfectly fine on that hardware

Main:

  • CPU
    10700k 5ghz All core 47 ring ratio 1.275v
  • Motherboard
    MSI Z590 A Pro
  • RAM
    4x8 viper steel samsung bdie: 4200-17-17-30
  • GPU
    Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming Oc
  • Case
    O11 air mini
  • Storage
    970 Evo Plus 500gb OS, Sn550 1tb, 860 evo 500gb, 2tb MX500
  • PSU
    RM750x (2018)
  • Display(s)
    Acer Nitro vg272up, Kogan 24 1080 120hz
  • Cooling
    arctic 280aio, EK M.2 NVMe Heatsink on 970 evo plus
     
    Second: 
    Cpu: i5-8400
    Cooling: ID-Cooling Frostflow 120x
    Ram: 2x8gb 2666 c16 hyperx fury, tuned the absolute balls out of it but def not stehble.
    Mobo: Asus Prime H310M-K
    Gpu: Igpu
    Case: Coolermaster MB311L
     
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