Home Minecraft Server

[bold jacinth]

So im planning on building a home Minecraft server for me and my friends,so in total 4-6 people.We plan on playing a heavy modpack and i was wondering what cpu would give the best price to performance ratio. I plan on sticking to 16 gb of ddr4 and a 128 gb m.2 ssd.
I would also prefer the cpu to be power efficient if possible.

[inland cape]

depending on how heavy exactly you are planning on modding the server the 16 G will work (keep in mind, that the os will also need some of that ram).
There isn't really THE cpu to recommend, but in general you should look for as high single-core-performance as you can fit in your budget. the current king of minecraft server cpus is the ryzen 7 9800X3D, however that one is neither cheap nor power efficient.
One worth looking at is the ryzen 5 5600XT (am4 because you whish to use ddr4) that one doesn't have any graphics but you can get around that by setting it up first temporarily using another gpu and then manage it remote (e. g. via ssh).

[heady summit]

my advise look for some used desktop and maybe some choise upgrades

like a i5 3570 is fine

[heady summit]

allso m.2 dose not mean its any faster thne nomral sata ssd

[bold jacinth]

i haven't bought any of the parts yet but would i get better performance if i went with the am5 platform,for example if i took the Ryzen 5 7600/7600x

[inland cape]

The 7600x offers a bit more performance but also uses more power. The main benefits would be RAM speed and upgradeability

[heady summit]

just as note my 4790k can run700 entitry+4225 chunk with out lagging

[bold jacinth]

how many people do you have on the server?

[heady summit]

i have 2 but if you dont run 32 chunk render disance and use somthing like 12 each player loading 6x less chunks

[heady summit]

i ran server before with lower render disance with opmizeron with 5 players before it was fine

[bold jacinth]

okay thank you

[bold jacinth]

so does ram have more impact on how a server performs because i thought it was mostly the cpu

[heady summit]

i have allso ran server of sky factory 5 with 3 plays with runinnig clinet+server on the same pc

[heady summit]

GB dont affect perfomince as long as dont run out

[inland cape]

Mostly just the cpu

[heady summit]

if your runing loads of mods 16GB kind of needed

but if you go ddr5 platform min is 32GB due to ddr5 spec with duel channal need 2x16GB

[inland cape]

The question was whether RAM speed was important

[bold jacinth]

okay thank you guys ill do more research but this was a good insight

[heady summit]

its dose

[inland cape]

Or 2x8

[heady summit]

its good bit slower

since all 8GB sticks of ddr5 are x16 memory cut the bank count in 2

[inland cape]

Didn't know that

[heady summit]

i did not tset MSPT with ram scailing but fps in single player it was about 30% gains when i tunned my memory

[bold jacinth]

ok thats nice to know

[heady summit]

but you shoud be able to get ok server for sub 200 if you fine with used

[bold jacinth]

yeah im fine with used

[heady summit]

quad core cpu with ok single core+ 16GB of ram i gses+ not just running auto JVM setting