4 cores enough?

[Commander_Dork]

Howdy! I'm looking to setup a minecraft/vpn server on proxmox which will be running on a 4 core i5 either 3rd gen or 4th gen I can't remember. But i'm curious if that will be enough cpu for running the vpn with up to 4 conncurent clients and the minecraft server with two clients all at the same time? the ram is 8gbs and I plan to allocate 2gbs to the VPN and 4 to the minecraft server. 

[MiszS]

Pretty sure that would be fine for vpns, but not so sure about minecraft server, this is a pretty old cpu, so I think it would be pretty laggy if there's more than like 2 players, or even with 2 only

[Commander_Dork]

i might upgrade it to the i7 4770 dyt that'd help enough?

[PDifolco]

11 minutes ago, Commander_Dork said:

i might upgrade it to the i7 4770 dyt that'd help enough?

Why do you insist on using these old CPU ? An i3 12100 will perform better

[Commander_Dork]

It's not that I insist it's just that it's what I have to work with atm. I have one other option that I know would work because I've done it before but I hoped to consolidate the servers to leave maximum room in my main home lab. If it's not gonna work it's not the end of the world tho

[Commander_Dork]

I'm also not interested in purchasing new hardware for it if I'm going to make it dedicated. Like, I know what would work but I was hoping to get away with this if possible. 

[Levent]

Its more than enough, I did a lot more with a lot less.

[Commander_Dork]

Ok thanks and worse case scenario I just don't use it for both haha!

[Zando_]

28 minutes ago, MiszS said:

Pretty sure that would be fine for vpns, but not so sure about minecraft server, this is a pretty old cpu, so I think it would be pretty laggy if there's more than like 2 players, or even with 2 only

Have known folks who ran a basic server with a couple mods on a raspberry pi, stuff on the ground would disappear after a bit due to the low RAM, but it had no issues with a few clients. A haswell i5 should easily handle it. 

5 minutes ago, Levent said:

Its more than enough, I did a lot more with a lot less.

^ I use 2200Gs at work for various VMs (mostly our Snipe-IT instance - inventory database basically) and some other stuff, those are similar to haswell chips on performance, and also 4c/4t. 

[MiszS]

1 hour ago, Zando_ said:

Have known folks who ran a basic server with a couple mods on a raspberry pi, stuff on the ground would disappear after a bit due to the low RAM, but it had no issues with a few clients. A haswell i5 should easily handle it. 

^ I use 2200Gs at work for various VMs (mostly our Snipe-IT instance - inventory database basically) and some other stuff, those are similar to haswell chips on performance, and also 4c/4t. 

Oh, good to hear that, if that's the case than my 8700 should be more than enough for a server, when I finnaly get a new pc