Server CPU

[Nilus Nova]

I'm looking to build my own modded Minecraft server. It would host about 10 people with 350+ mods. I'm just having a hard time pinning down what kind of cpu to use, so any help in the right direction would be much apprenticed.

[Dutch_Master]

Where is this server gonna live? Is it in a data centre or just your house/basement? (TBH, I suspect the latter)

 

If it's in a data centre, AMD EPYC has the best spec's. For home use, both Intel and AMD have suitable CPU's, but the former needs more power for the same performance.

 

And what's your budget?

[Blue4130]

15 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Where is this server gonna live? Is it in a data centre or just your house/basement? (TBH, I suspect the latter)

 

If it's in a data centre, AMD EPYC has the best spec's. For home use, both Intel and AMD have suitable CPU's, but the former needs more power for the same performance.

 

And what's your budget?

Location doesn't really matter. Epyc is fine at home also.

[Dutch_Master]

2 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

Location doesn't really matter. Epyc is fine at home also.

Read again, I never implied you can't use EPYC at home. (I actually have 2 EPYC systems at home )

[Blue4130]

6 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Read again, I never implied you can't use EPYC at home. (I actually have 2 EPYC systems at home )

You didn't say, but your post implies that Epyc isn't as great at home. You make it sound like Epyc ceases to be the best if it leaves the data center.

[manikyath]

54 minutes ago, Nilus Nova said:

It would host about 10 people

presuming these are all friends, or 'friends of friends you can directly trust'.

<insert ramble about anything hosted to the public needs to be in a datacenter>

 

that said... if you have a cpu on the shelf (from a pc upgrade or whatever) that's newer than haswell, that should be plenty. note that high single-core performance is EXTREMELY important for modded minecraft, so AMD FX is not the way to go, for example.

 

on that note.. a 32 core epyc is also not ideal if you're only using it for minecraft, because literally 95% of that cpu will be sitting idle.

 

presuming this is "pc sitting at home to host minecraft for friends" level of server.. honestly just get some core i3 level hardware, stick 16GB RAM in it, a decent SSD, and some lightweight linux distro so you can allocate 14 of those 16GB to the server, because you'll need that.

28 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Read again, I never implied you can't use EPYC at home. (I actually have 2 EPYC systems at home )

i've got an epyc sitting under my desk (well.. summer is a thing, it's out in the garage now..) but that's *NOT* the way for OP to go, at all, unless there's some need for all dem cores, and all the pcie.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

41 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Where is this server gonna live? Is it in a data centre or just your house/basement? (TBH, I suspect the latter)

 

If it's in a data centre, AMD EPYC has the best spec's. For home use, both Intel and AMD have suitable CPU's, but the former needs more power for the same performance.

 

And what's your budget?

Can minecraft even use that many cores? i mean those old epyc 7551 are like 120$, pair with some dual socket sp3 supermicro you can get for around 250-300$ and thats 64 cores for only 500$ and theyre overclockable with agesa <1.0.0.3, the actual 64 core cpus are 800$ (7702/7742)

 

A cheaper setup would be a dual socket 2011-3 board like this (might be able to find some cheaper used boards) and a couple 2670 v3 and thats a 24 core setup for less than 100$

 

 

If mincraft cant actually use that many cores just build some ryzen 5500/5600 + used b3/450 combo and overclock to 4.7-4.8ghz allcore

[Nilus Nova]

1 hour ago, Dutch_Master said:

Where is this server gonna live? Is it in a data centre or just your house/basement? (TBH, I suspect the latter)

 

If it's in a data centre, AMD EPYC has the best spec's. For home use, both Intel and AMD have suitable CPU's, but the former needs more power for the same performance.

 

And what's your budget?

you would be right it is the latter. budget wise for cpu $600 usd

[Nilus Nova]

50 minutes ago, manikyath said:

a 32 core epyc is also not ideal if you're only using it for minecraft

We do play other games like ark that would be nice to have a server for just not nearly as often as minecraft and the other games are not heavily modded. so would that cpu fit an application like that and if so would there be certain one to go for?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Nilus Nova said:

We do play other games like ark that would be nice to have a server for just not nearly as often as minecraft and the other games are not heavily modded. so would that cpu fit an application like that and if so would there be certain one to go for?

if you're hosting multiple servers simultaniously.. perhaps.

 

but i've done minecraft, Gmod, conan exiles, and space engineers simultaniously on an i7-4770.

 

like i've said.. if you have nothing on the shelf, just go for something core i3 level.. perhaps core i5 if you're hoping to host multiple things simultaniously. desktop stuff has plenty of core count for you to not toss 4k on an AMD EPYC setup.