• Building a small Server PC $400 budget MAX
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Alright so for a little while now I've been running an at home minecraft PC and I have gotten donations and I finally got $400 after almost a year, I figured it would be time to upgrade the server PC as at the moment its an intel celeron with 1gb ddr2 and a 15 gb IDE drive. So here is what I've put together, also $400 includes shipping which for me is $16 from newegg. [IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/serverpc.PNG[/IMG] I already have a case and 430w PSU so I'm fine on that, Just wanted to know if this was a decent build for a minecraft server. At the moment we have a cap at 10 players at a time but we have over 30 registered and whitelisted members. Also to those who were talking to me about my internet awhile back its fixed now.
I'd get a really cheap motherboard since features on it aren't that important, and use the extra money for a better CPU.
It looks plenty fine for a Minecraft server, but I have to ask: Why the extra money for HD3000?
Didn't catch that, as daschnek said the 2125 is just a 2120 with the HD3000 integrated rather than HD2000. Either get [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.763241[/url] or spend a little more for an i5 2500k [editline]23rd November 2011[/editline] I chose that because it was the cheapest H67 (has SATA III) with 4 DIMM slots, with a combo available. If you don't go with that combo get the cheaper H67 and get whatever CPU. [editline]23rd November 2011[/editline] With the money saved, get 8 more GB RAM or a bigger SSD.
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/serverpc2.PNG[/IMG] Better?
dont run a minecraft server on a consumer ssd the constant small read/writes will destroy it
Speedtest please.
[QUOTE=demonguard;33413896]dont run a minecraft server on a consumer ssd the constant small read/writes will destroy it[/QUOTE] SSD is for the OS only, already have an un used sata I'm going to put in it. [editline]24th November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Goz3rr;33414106]Speedtest please.[/QUOTE] My speed is fucked again, I'm back at 96% packet loss because some construction workers were in the area and supposedly snapped an underground cable. I find that to be complete bullshit and I'm going to switch back to AT&T I think.
[QUOTE=demonguard;33413896]dont run a minecraft server on a consumer ssd the constant small read/writes will destroy it[/QUOTE] With 16GB of RAM and a reasonable small worldmap he could ramdisk it, yeah?
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