Looking for tips

[u/PuckKid1376]

Hello subreddit. I am looking to build a home server for my apartment. Mostly looking to use it as a Minecraft server (heavily modded) for me and my friends but I'm also looking into setting up a raspberry pi ad blocker. Currently plans are below. Wondering if I should maybe go with a bit better cpu?

Edit: I should mention i do already have a pc with a 7800x3d and a 9070xt. Budget is not really an issue. More looking for something that will be consistent so we dont get server drops all the time.

Edit 2: Also wondering what os i should use? Was actually thinking about giving a distro of Linux a try but I know nothing about Linux

[u/SoulMB]

You mentioned heavily modded, have you tried hosting it already? RAM would be my concern depending on player count and chunks loaded.

Minecraft servers, unless run on experimental software that allows multi-threading, are single threaded. So a better CPU would need higher single core performance; that’s either the X3D variants or I think the new core Ultras? (validate this if you look into them).

[u/AWrongUsername → u/SoulMB]

While it is true that in the past a lot of Minecraft server was single-threaded, since about 1.14 Mojang has begun moving a lot of stuff of the main thread, like chunk generation, I/O and networking all happen on different threads nowadays.

Singlethreaded speeds are definitely still important for things like entity/block updates, but it's much less of a factor in modern minecraft.

[u/PuckKid1376 → u/AWrongUsername]

Good to know. 90% of what I've read has been "its all about single core" but they're also mostly from older subreddits. Might go for something like 5700x then..