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Doc_Gore
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So, I'm picking parts for my Minecraft server. (Note: This server has TONS of mods and does need to be powerful. My current i5 with 8 gigs of RAM can barely load chunks while playing. Even though it's a dedicated server.) Let me know if there are any parts I can change out or get a better deal on. Thanks! Here's the computer part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Doc_Gore/saved/2d03

 

EDIT: The server will have a maximum of about 4 people, but has tons of entity's and mobs in game.

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If your getting ecc ram i would get a xeon processor to go with that and make the HDD a raid just in case one crashes so you still have all the map data and you do not need a GPU for minecraft servers.

Ok, thanks. I picked the GPU because the motherboard didn't support on-board video. Thanks for the tips!

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If the server will have a max of 4 people you just have to optimize it and it should run easly on your i5 with 8 gigs of ram no need to get a new system just get a plugin called ClearLag it unloads chunks and clears entities. It helps alot.

 

And it also might not be the server at all if your internet is slow that could cause problems.

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If the server will have a max of 4 people you just have to optimize it and it should run easly on your i5 with 8 gigs of ram no need to get a new system just get a plugin called ClearLag it unloads chunks and clears entities. It helps alot.

 

And it also might not be the server at all if your internet is slow that could cause problems.

The thing is that we need those chunks and entities. (well some of them that is :P ) It's hard to explain, but I'll try it anyway. And it can't be my internet connection. It's a LAN server.

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I would save the money and not buy ECC ram at all - really only needed on servers for things like DB's and such - where errors cannot be allowed to creep in. Not really needed here...

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Hahaha, yeah, I thought the i5 was overkill at first when I built my first server. That wasn't enough apparently.

Well if you want to pm me we could work out a deal to use my server for it.

Btw specs 32gb ram intel Xeon can't exactly rember the part and 1gb up and 1gb down.

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Well if you want to pm me we could work out a deal to use my server for it.

Btw specs 32gb ram intel Xeon can't exactly rember the part and 1gb up and 1gb down.

Thanks for the offer, but I actually like keeping my server LAN only because when people ask if they can join my during my live streams, I can make the excuse that it is a LAN only server. :P 

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Thanks for the offer, but I actually like keeping my server LAN only because when people ask if they can join my during my live streams, I can make the excuse that it is a LAN only server. :P

Ok Personaly I would go with a core 2 duo and 8gb of ram for a LAN server.
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Ok, sweet. Btw, one last question, would running the server on Windows 7 as opposed to Windows Server make a difference?

No real difference anyway I think mojang would have designed the server side thinking that most people ain't gonna have a copy of windows server laying around.

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Ok, sweet. Btw, one last question, would running the server on Windows 7 as opposed to Windows Server make a difference?

You should running off of Linux if you want a good dedicated minecraft server.

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I had a feed the beast server with 6 players on without any lag at all... It was only i3, 8gb and a 250gb HDD.... not top of the line or anything. You just need to optimise it, with plugins and making sure you have enough ram allocated to it.

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