so yeah. making a server computer, will it benefit from hyperthreading ?

[givingtnt]

question is in the title its a minecraft server. and I need to know if I should get a hyperthreaded processor or not

[Excon]

Minecraft hosting is single core only, makes no difference

[the jolly roger]

question is in the title its a minecraft server. and I need to know if I should get a hyperthreaded processor or not

are you deciding on core i5 vs core i7???

 

core i5 will be plenty

 

just make sure you dedicate at least 8gb of ram

 

and run it off an SSD, prefferibly a dedicated ssd since 60gb ssds are dirt cheap

[the jolly roger]

Minecraft hosting is single core only, makes no difference

ok i did not know this, in that case you need the strongest single core you can get, so i say G3258 and OC that

[Excon]

ok i did not know this, in that case you need the strongest single core you can get, so i say G3258 and OC that

Pretty much

[givingtnt]

ok thanks. its mostly between a 4690k and a 4790k. 16gb of ram and a 128gb ssd...

[givingtnt]

Pretty much

 

 

ok i did not know this, in that case you need the strongest single core you can get, so i say G3258 and OC that

well if I can get a g3258 instead... well thats gona be nice !  thanks guys !

[the jolly roger]

ok thanks. its mostly between a 4690k and a 4790k. 16gb of ram and a 128gb ssd...

if it will be a dedicated PC just for the server get the G3258 as @Excon said it only uses a single core, and the g3258 has the same per core performance of a core i5.

[the jolly roger]

well if I can get a g3258 instead... well thats gona be nice !  thanks guys !

if you will be running it off your primary PC that you use for everything else the best price/performance would be an 8 core FX

[Excon]

As the jooly roger said, if this is dedicated computer then go with the G3258. If its your primary computer then definitely get better

[Excon]

if you will be running it off your primary PC that you use for everything else the best price/performance would be an 8 core FX

A 4690k would be much much better since he wouldnt need 8 cores

[the jolly roger]

A 4690k would be much much better since he wouldnt need 8 cores

yea but i mean if he runs if off his main PC then the server would only use 1 core, while games use 4 cores and he would have 3 cores left on an i5

[Enderman]

Minecraft hosting is single core only, makes no difference

 

Actually basically everyone replying in this thread is wrong.

A minecraft server will use 4 cores, so it will perform much better with a 4690k than with a 2 core pentium.

Anything over 4 cores will not be used, so a 4790k would not be beneficial.

[SirSquid]

What about TF2 and other Source MP games?

[Excon]

Actually basically everyone replying in this thread is wrong.

A minecraft server will use 4 cores, so it will perform much better with a 4690k than with a 2 core pentium.

Anything over 4 cores will not be used, so a 4790k would not be beneficial.

Bukkit, which every major server uses (myself included) has support for only 1 core. SOME mods how ever can use more but these are far and few between

[Enderman]

Bukkit, which every major server uses (myself included) has support for only 1 core. SOME mods how ever can use more but these are far and few between

when I ran a bukkit server it also used 4 cores.

[Excon]

when I ran a bukkit server it also used 4 cores.

Go find me one source that says Bukkit has multicore support for server tick

[Enderman]

Go find me one source that says Bukkit has multicore support for server tick

Here is my proof:

as you can see, it only uses 4 of my 8 cores. This is the same with the standard vanilla server from mojang.

[Excon]

Here is my proof:

as you can see, it only uses 4 of my 8 cores. This is the same with the standard vanilla server from mojang.

Vanilla can use more cores, Bukkit cannot

[Enderman]

Vanilla can use more cores, Bukkit cannot

Then why do 4 of my 8 cores get used whenever I have my bukkit server running?

Because it uses them.

All of my cores are between 0 and 1% at idle. You can clearly see in the screenshot that bukkit is using 4 of them.

[Excon]

Then why do 4 of my 8 cores get used whenever I have my bukkit server running?

Because it uses them.

All of my cores are between 0 and 1% at idle. You can clearly see in the screenshot that bukkit is using 4 of them.

Okay something else has to be going on because THE DEVS OF BUKKIT SAID IT DOESNT HAVE MULTICORE SUPPORT

[Kyuubixchidori]

guys its possible that bukkit itself only uses one core. that doesnt mean you want just a one core pc. you want more for the other services and such that run in the background. granted you can get away with almost any recent processor for any smallish server. cant really go wrong any way

[Enderman]

Okay something else has to be going on because THE DEVS OF BUKKIT SAID IT DOESNT HAVE MULTICORE SUPPORT

Maybe its java that is dividing its resource usage among 4 cores. Either way, it does use it so OP should at least get a quad core CPU.

What it uses it for idk, but it does, so I would not risk going with a dual core and then finding out that java is having performance issues running a server because of that.