- May 30, 2015
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Hey Guys,
I'm planning on building a small minecraft server (which may eventually turn into a game server for other games or a NAS, etc. in the future). I'm on a rather tight budget of around £200, thus explaining my choosing of such a cheap processor. Running the server on my current machine (with an AMD Athlon X4 760k), the server only uses at the maximum around 40% of the CPU. Single core benchmarks of both CPU's indicate that the 5350 is around 55% as powerful as the 760k. Is it sensible to extrapolate that data, and assume that the 5350 will run at ~72% at the maximum server usage I have experienced, or will other features which the 5350 may lack cause the server to work horribly?
As a minecraft server, the server will be on for around 8-10 hours a day, therefore low power consumption is a priority for me. The 5350 consumes only 25W, again explaining my choosing of that particular processor. I have seen motherboards with embedded CPU's which consume even less power, and thus are silent due to only needing passive cooling, but these are usually not very powerful. Could there be something like that which could be an option?
Here is my preliminary build, how could I improve upon this:
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/88jxK8
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor (£35.60 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Gelid Solutions CC-Ssilence-AM1 34.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£13.75)
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard (£23.31 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£35.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 64GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£29.26 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.50 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.99 @ More Computers)
Total: £192.41
Thanks,
Brady
I'm planning on building a small minecraft server (which may eventually turn into a game server for other games or a NAS, etc. in the future). I'm on a rather tight budget of around £200, thus explaining my choosing of such a cheap processor. Running the server on my current machine (with an AMD Athlon X4 760k), the server only uses at the maximum around 40% of the CPU. Single core benchmarks of both CPU's indicate that the 5350 is around 55% as powerful as the 760k. Is it sensible to extrapolate that data, and assume that the 5350 will run at ~72% at the maximum server usage I have experienced, or will other features which the 5350 may lack cause the server to work horribly?
As a minecraft server, the server will be on for around 8-10 hours a day, therefore low power consumption is a priority for me. The 5350 consumes only 25W, again explaining my choosing of that particular processor. I have seen motherboards with embedded CPU's which consume even less power, and thus are silent due to only needing passive cooling, but these are usually not very powerful. Could there be something like that which could be an option?
Here is my preliminary build, how could I improve upon this:
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/88jxK8
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor (£35.60 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Gelid Solutions CC-Ssilence-AM1 34.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£13.75)
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard (£23.31 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£35.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 64GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£29.26 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.50 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.99 @ More Computers)
Total: £192.41
Thanks,
Brady
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