CPU for Modded Minecraft

[Burgerhat]

Hello, i cant seem to find the information i need and im hoping you guys can do me good.

 

In the near future i am going to be building two new PC´s that among other things, will run heavily modded Minecraft. 

 

My wife and me enjoys to play the Hardcore Questing Mod like Agrarian Skies, Blast-Off, Agrarian Skies 2 and Crash Landing.

What CPU should i be looking at for best performance with handling all these seperate Mods? All modpacks end up lagging the game when you have played on the same map for some time due to the vast amount of machines and farms you are building. 

 

I am looking for the CPU that gives me the least amount of lag and stutter, not nessesary the highest framerates (60-70fps is fine, even if you CAN find people with +500fps in classic Minecraft)

 

1. Would i benefit from the hyperthreading on a i7?
2. What difference would i see between a 6700 or a oc 6700k?
3. What difference would i see between a 6600 or a oc 6600k?
4. What difference would i see between a 6600k or 6700k or 4790k or 4690k
5. In this case would a Xeon be better than a i3/i5/i7?

 

I can find loads of forums where people guess at what the difference would be, but most of the info is either outdated or are simply various personal preferences (ie. you should buy xxxx brand, cause xxxx brand sucks).

 

The rest of the machines will most likely consist of:

• GTX 960 or a GTX 970 
• Z170 board or equalent
• prefabricated watercooler for the CPU

 

Budget for a single PC is in the 1500 USD range (without peripherals)

I have not looked at other hardware yet.

 

Other games we both play are Diablo III, Guildwars 2, Skyrim, Warhammer 40k and games from the Total War franchise.

[J_BlRD]

You must have an amazing wife if they play minecraft and skyrim with you 

[alexhelvetica]

An LGA 1150 Xeon is basically an i-series CPU without the iGPU, but it supports ECC ram.

Vanilla Minecraft is very much a single threaded game, so a Pentium with a really higher OC would be best.  I have not looked into moded Minecraft so I am not sure about that.

Most games use less than 4threads so something like an i5 will be fine. 

I'd go with an i5 4690k (the k means it is overclockable)  with a R9 390 or GTX 970.

 

For the PSU,  I'd recommend an EVGA G2,  GS or GS,  XFX XTR or TS,  Seasonic X or G.

 

Sorry if the formating is bad,  I am on my phone 

Edited February 29, 2016 by Comic_Sans_MS

[Starelementpoke]

24 minutes ago, Burgerhat said:

Hello, i cant seem to find the information i need and im hoping you guys can do me good.

 

In the near future i am going to be building two new PC´s that among other things, will run heavily modded Minecraft. 

 

My wife and me enjoys to play the Hardcore Questing Mod like Agrarian Skies, Blast-Off, Agrarian Skies 2 and Crash Landing.

What CPU should i be looking at for best performance with handling all these seperate Mods? All modpacks end up lagging the game when you have played on the same map for some time due to the vast amount of machines and farms you are building. 

 

I am looking for the CPU that gives me the least amount of lag and stutter, not nessesary the highest framerates (60-70fps is fine, even if you CAN find people with +500fps in classic Minecraft)

 

1. Would i benefit from the hyperthreading on a i7?
2. What difference would i see between a 6700 or a oc 6700k?
3. What difference would i see between a 6600 or a oc 6600k?
4. What difference would i see between a 6600k or 6700k or 4790k or 4690k
5. In this case would a Xeon be better than a i3/i5/i7?

 

I can find loads of forums where people guess at what the difference would be, but most of the info is either outdated or are simply various personal preferences (ie. you should buy xxxx brand, cause xxxx brand sucks).

 

The rest of the machines will most likely consist of:

• GTX 960 or a GTX 970 
• Z170 board or equalent
• prefabricated watercooler for the CPU

 

Budget for a single PC is in the 1500 USD range (without peripherals)

I have not looked at other hardware yet.

 

Other games we both play are Diablo III, Guildwars 2, Skyrim, Warhammer 40k and games from the Total War franchise.

I mean, if it was $1500 just for a modded minecraft build I´d call you crazy. Thankfully, it isn´t. Any color scheme, do you need cuda?

[Burgerhat]

6 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

An LGA 1150 Xeon is basically an i-series CPU without the iGPU, but it supports ECC ram.

Vanilla Minecraft is very much a single threaded game, so a Pentium with a really higher OC would be best.  I have not looked into moded Minecraft so I am not sure about that.

Most games use less than 4threads so something like an i5 will be fine. 

I'd go with an i5 4690k (the k means it is overclockable)  with a R9 390 or GTX 970.

 

For the PSU,  I'd recommend an EVGA G2,  GS or GS,  XFX XTR or TS,  Seasonic X or G.

 

Sorry if the formating is bad,  I am on my phone 

Todays Minecraft DOES benefit from multi core CPU's

 

And yes, the most important about this CPU is that it eliminates as much lag and stutter as possible in heavily modded minecraft as i mentioned above.

 

The rest of the PC will be chosen at a later time. (prices change, might find some items on sale)

 

But thank you for answering.

[Burgerhat]

8 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I mean, if it was $1500 just for a modded minecraft build I´d call you crazy. Thankfully, it isn´t. Any color scheme, do you need cuda?

There is no color theme, im not really into case-modding. A black box is fine by me. 

 

Also, if you had tried to play modded minecraft, you would know just how annoying it is when your system cant keep up and everything starts to lag.

 

What is Cuda? Ive heard someone mention something called cuda-cores, but i have not read anything about it.

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Burgerhat said:

There is no color theme, im not really into case-modding. 

 

What is Cuda? Ive heard someone mention something called cuda-cores, but i have not read anything about it.

Eh, it´s for certain workloads, but as you don´t know about it, it´s a safe bet you won´t need it.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BQ22t6
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BQ22t6/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($244.78 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.50 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($59.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($86.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  ($309.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $996.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-29 07:50 EST-0500

Not even a $1000, and it´ll do what you want it to do just fine.

[Burgerhat]

2 hours ago, Starelementpoke said:

Eh, it´s for certain workloads, but as you don´t know about it, it´s a safe bet you won´t need it.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BQ22t6
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BQ22t6/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($244.78 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.50 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($59.49 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($86.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  ($309.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $996.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-29 07:50 EST-0500

Not even a $1000, and it´ll do what you want it to do just fine.

Thanks buddy.

 

But i didn't ask for a complete build, I asked a few somewhat specific questions about CPU's.

 

Picking parts for a gaming computer are not the problem, picking a CPU for a specific job is.

 

I appreciate you taking your time to try and help.

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Burgerhat said:

Thanks buddy.

 

But i didn't ask for a complete build, I asked a few somewhat specific questions about CPU's.

 

Picking parts for a gaming computer are not the problem, picking a CPU for a specific job is.

 

I appreciate you taking your time to try and help.

Eh sorry, I just enjoy making builds.