minecraft Need AMD CPU recommendation for Minecraft server

[Elijah Kamski]

Hey there,

I'm planning on fully putting my MC server on some dedicated hardware so my main desktop can actually take a break for once in a week XD

I need some CPU recommendations for the server. It's not a bungee cord server, so I think it'll only use the lone thread really, but I'm not really sure, it's just a SMP.

It'll need to be able a ton of redstone stuff in game, needs to be able to handle a ton of plugins at it and that's basically it. It'll host around a maximum of 20 players, but I'd like it to actually be able to handle around 60 just in case, giving some headroom in the future before needing an upgrade. I'll also need it to handle a minimum of 3200Mhz RAM, minimum 4 slots in dual channel configs as that is what my spare motherboard has, and I'd like to allocate as much RAM as possible to it, so unfortunately I can't run this on an Athlon 3000G.

So yeah, what kind of AMD recommendations do you guys have?

Socket: AM4
Budget: $400 AUD

Note: 32GB of 3200Mhz RAM will be used.

Thanks,

Eli

[GamGrime69]

5600x. You'd probably be fine with a quad core since minecraft server is so single threaded, but amd unfortunately doesn't have any good quad cores right now.

 

Intel would be better with something like a 12600k but you already have the board so I get not wanting to go for that

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Minecraft server isn't particularly intensive. You'd honestly be better off going Intel for the single threaded performance

[Ralphred]

I run spigot on an FX8350, and TBQH it's my 4gig of memory that's the issue (starts swapping when the kids roam too far, and seems like java leaks like a sieve), but spigot will get ~700% cpu usage on initialisation, sits around 80-120% with no active users.

If I had the choice I'd store the world files on an SSD too.

[Elijah Kamski]

3 hours ago, gamagama69 said:

5600x. You'd probably be fine with a quad core since minecraft server is so single threaded, but amd unfortunately doesn't have any good quad cores right now.

 

Intel would be better with something like a 12600k but you already have the board so I get not wanting to go for that

The 5600X seems pretty good, might get that one.

Yeah, was thinking about going intel because it's single core, but man, having to buy an entirely new board and all kinda sucks XD

Cheers!

[Elijah Kamski]

3 hours ago, orbitalbuzzsaw said:

Minecraft server isn't particularly intensive. You'd honestly be better off going Intel for the single threaded performance

Yeah, was going to go intel, but then I looked at my wallet and it cried when I told it that we might need a new motherboard, so I said to it it's okay, and that we'll just get a new CPU instead.

[Elijah Kamski]

2 hours ago, Ralphred said:

I run spigot on an FX8350, and TBQH it's my 4gig of memory that's the issue (starts swapping when the kids roam too far, and seems like java leaks like a sieve), but spigot will get ~700% cpu usage on initialisation, sits around 80-120% with no active users.

If I had the choice I'd store the world files on an SSD too.

Looking into the FX8350 and it seems pretty good, but unfortunately doesn't meet the specs that I wanted, mostly being the DDR3 and the socket type, which means I'd need to find a new mobo.

Good setup still though!

Currently running it on a HDD that's a non-boot drive, but definitely looking to get a second NVMe for the server specifically since /tpr takes a bit of a while XD

[Ralphred]

9 hours ago, Elijah Kamski said:

but unfortunately doesn't meet the specs that I wanted

Oh, it wasn't a suggestion, just a data point for you to "benchmark" against.