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Hi, I need a CPU to run a Minecraft server at home. It seems as all the minecraft server hosters charge way too much for the hardware.

 

Looking to run a server with 50 people on average and 100 on the weekends with about 40 plugins. I can figure out which motherboard and other components to buy based on the cpu.

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Hi, I need a CPU to run a Minecraft server at home. It seems as all the minecraft server hosters charge way too much for the hardware you get.

 

Probably a AMD Quad Core Should be Fine, or if you can find a Q6600 for cheap, I would go for that.

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Can't agree more with hosters charging way too much, and you usually get less than what you can get if you were to spend that first couple months rent on a build yourself. Hosters rank servers based off of the amount of ram they have, which should send up red flags immediately, yes ram on a server is important, but 6gb of ram or more on a server with <20 people on constantly is overkill. The bigest thing that effects your performance is the cpu and bandwidth. 

 

You'll need to make sure you can dedicate about 5mb of your internet's upload/download speed on both sides to accommodate the server. After that things like an SSD can help with keeping blocklag from being a thing, and would mean better load times. As far as cpus go, you'll want a midrange K10 family cpu, meaning something along the lines of a Athlon x4, or if you can find some a Phenom II x4 or x6. If you want to go intel, look into some older I5's or Xeons, but keep note that those builds are going to be more expensive, and that's just kinda that :l

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Can't agree more with hosters charging way too much, and you usually get less than what you can get if you were to spend that first couple months rent on a build yourself. Hosters rank servers based off of the amount of ram they have, which should send up red flags immediately, yes ram on a server is important, but 6gb of ram or more on a server with <20 people on constantly is overkill. The bigest thing that effects your performance is the cpu and bandwidth. 

 

You'll need to make sure you can dedicate about 5mb of your internet's upload/download speed on both sides to accommodate the server. After that things like an SSD can help with keeping blocklag from being a thing, and would mean better load times. As far as cpus go, you'll want a midrange K10 family cpu, meaning something along the lines of a Athlon x4, or if you can find some a Phenom II x4 or x6. If you want to go intel, look into some older I5's or Xeons, but keep note that those builds are going to be more expensive, and that's just kinda that :l

 

Just Minecraft?

 

How many clients? Mods?

 

Probably a AMD Quad Core Should be Fine, or if you can find a Q6600 for cheap, I would go for that.

 

You just need it to run a server? and just a cpu?

 

Just updated the post with more info. Sorry for being so vague

CPU: Intel i5 4690k @ 4.3 GHz       GPU: MSI GTX 980                      Cooling: be quiet! Pure Rock                     OS: Windows 7            Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z

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Just updated the post with more info. Sorry for being so vague

Is fine.

 

What's your internet connection like? Could you show us a speedtest.net result?

 

I think you'll want 8-12GB RAM, but then that's my opinion.

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Is fine.

 

What's your internet connection like? Could you show us a speedtest.net result?

 

I think you'll want 8-12GB RAM, but then that's my opinion.

 

I get 20 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up and 10 ping. Also I might be switching to a new company that advertises 50/50.

CPU: Intel i5 4690k @ 4.3 GHz       GPU: MSI GTX 980                      Cooling: be quiet! Pure Rock                     OS: Windows 7            Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z

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I get 20 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up and 10 ping. Also I might be switching to a new company that advertises 50/50.

I'm not sure that 5mbps would be good enough for that many players, but 50 would definitely be fine.

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Hi, I need a CPU to run a Minecraft server at home. It seems as all the minecraft server hosters charge way too much for the hardware.

 

Looking to run a server with 50 people on average and 100 on the weekends with about 40 plugins. I can figure out which motherboard and other components to buy based on the cpu.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($81.98 @ Newegg)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($54.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($104.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ Micro Center)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ Micro Center)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GT 630 2GB Video Card ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)

Power Supply: Corsair RM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($52.00 @ Newegg)

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.78 @ Directron)

Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer ($54.98 @ Newegg)

Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $617.67

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-22 13:41 EDT-0400

The two drives in Raid will be fast enough to prevent block lag. This could also be used as a home server, Mass storage. Also, movie box.

Good luck! :D

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($81.98 @ Newegg)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($54.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($104.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ Micro Center)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ Micro Center)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GT 630 2GB Video Card ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)

Power Supply: Corsair RM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($52.00 @ Newegg)

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.78 @ Directron)

Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer ($54.98 @ Newegg)

Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $617.67

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-22 13:41 EDT-0400

The two drives in Raid will be fast enough to prevent block lag. This could also be used as a home server, Mass storage. Also, movie box.

Good luck! :D

Block lag is caused by the server lagging or connection lag...

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Block lag is caused by the server lagging or connection lag...

I thought it had something to go with read and write speeds of the drives. I don't play mine craft. There is a good wireless card on there anyways.

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