Low wattage cheap powerful cpu for Minecraft Server/nas? - Page 1
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author: Asavage9794
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 07:51:29 pm
content: Looking to build a new home server that will house my files and my minecraft server. The minecraft server will be scaleable between 24-60 players.Current home server specs: (Brace yourself its a potato)Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @3ghz5Gb ddr2 800320gb wd blue laptop hddCurrent specs planned out..CPU: Intel Intel Celeron G3900 2c 2t @2.8ghzRam: 16Gb DDR4 2133HDD1: 250Gb ST9250315ASHDD2: 2x 2Tb Seagate ST2000LM007 in RAID 1 (Mirroring) Nas and Server partitionsCost: $604.81 Usd604.81 is too expensive for me though. I want to be able to upgrade the server later to 32Gb of ram (If needed)I would go with a amd cpu but amd is alittle bit outdated, and dont really have low wattage cpus (except for socket AM1) but socket AM1 cpus are really slow from what I hear.People will be using world edit on the minecraft server with 128x plots by plotme or plotsquared. World edit is really cpu intensive and not to mention the loading in of new world chunks.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 08:25:35 pm
content: Minecraft is actually quite intensive due to it using Java (even server). I have a Quad Xeon for mine. I gave the VM 8GB of ram. Even then it can sometimes be a tad laggy with a lot going on (thousands of cows etc).Good news is the Xeon based systems are quite efficient, it only pulls like 75w when I had checked.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 08:52:29 pm
content: How on earth is that costing 604? You can buy proper rack mount servers for much less than that, believe me. I have a dl380 g6 with 72gb of ram that I got for 500 canadian, converted from usb, two x5570's in it, no drives or caddies but that was a minimal cost to get it up and running.

author: Asavage9794
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 08:54:05 pm
content: Ill make up a budget for a intel xeon server. Ill report back when Its all done. Do servers with Intel Xeon's require to have air conditioning? Rackmount or pedalstool? whats better? I personally like rackmounted servers better cause they look cool and take up a relatively small amount of room (I share a 2 bedroom apt with 4 people).

author: Asavage9794
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 09:06:07 pm
content: Ill go get a estimate on how much it will cost to get a used server off ebay. Ill report back with the new specs when im done. I was wanting to build a custom server though, but hp proliant servers are reliable servers. Not sure about the power consumption though thats what im worried about.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 09:18:37 pm
content: Quote from: Asavage9794 on May 19, 2016, 08:54:05 pmYou don't need a rack, but they are cool to have, you can get dell poweredge r710's for less than 300 on ebay and those are really nice machines.The power consumption is a factor though, but if you go hp and stick above g4 you will be better off, my dl380 g6 draws 400w with the processors at 100% all the time, running various things through BOINC, and in a closet with a fan venting out they it doesn't get much above 23 degrees in there so far, but summer is ramping up.If power concern is a big factor, an intel NUC might work well with some sort of external storage array. Check out homelab on reddit, I've got a post on the first or second page about an apc pdu with pictures of my setup, and there are people with setups I'd kill to have lol.

author: Asavage9794
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 11:46:01 pm
content: I seen your video, pretty bad ass. What is your home internet speed? Mine gets 104.61Mbps down and 10.69Mbps up with a 19Ms ping to Chicago, il 314Mi (505km) away Its over Docsis 3.0 and gets 15ms to the network edge. My ISP is New Wave Communications. Not bad for living in a small town the internet here used to be horrible until they upgraded the network. also theres only 3 hops to the network edge and it goes about 55miles (88km).

author: botcrusher
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 12:00:02 am
content: HOLD IT!contrary to popular belief, an Xeon can actually make a minetaft serverworseNo matter what mojang or the wiki tries to sell you, there is no veritable multithreading in a minecraft server. You need a cpu that has fewer threads, but can run those threads on crack.If you want the fastest possible mc server, go for the i7-4790k. If you want something just a bit slower for that price, go for the pentium G3258.The other big bottleneck in minecraft is the chunk system. It loves to saturate I/O so pair it with a small and fast SSD.Assuming you aren't doing too much in the way of intenisve mods / heavy plugins, you can most likely get away with underclocking the G3258 to around 2 Ghz if you really want to pinch down on wattage.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 12:06:56 am
content: Quote from: Asavage9794 on May 19, 2016, 11:46:01 pmInternet here is terrible, 18mbps download at lest, 3 up if you are lucky. What I would give to live in the states and have google fiber.

author: Asavage9794
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 12:12:10 am
content: I feel like they will never deploy google fiber here in south illinois.

author: botcrusher
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 12:34:52 am
content: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nFjmf7There. Kept your dual drive setup, the ssd is for the os and the mc server. It's overkill, that could be reduced.I'm on mobile so i took the first decent looking motherboard with raid, 32Gb max, and a good number of sata III ports.

author: grifftech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 03:47:54 am
content: Quote from: Asavage9794 on May 19, 2016, 11:46:01 pmI have 7 ish Mbps down and 1 ish up