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Family Minecraft server Buying advice (midwest.social)

submitted 4 months ago by phorim@midwest.social to c/minipcs@lemmy.world

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Looking for advice on a good Mini PC for a family Minecraft server. 64 GB, SSD, budget is $400. Amazon is preferred, because I have award credits from my job. I'm happy to assemble things myself if that's more cost effective.

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[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Type NUC into amazon search
???
you find what you're looking for

[–] phorim@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'm worried that I might buy a brand that's junk if I do that.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Asus has always been a solid brand in my experience. I would recommend anything Ryzen-based, since they're definitely in the lead over Intel right now, but anything with at least 4 cores that can run at at least 4.0GHz will be fine.

Minecraft servers can eat up a ton of RAM, so I would focus on that first. 32GB minimum, maybe 64. Should also preferably have an M.2 SSD, but anything non-mechanical is fine. Other than that, there isn't much spec-wise you need to worry about.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Amazon refurbished used and refurbished devices.

And then from there, I'd recommend one of the older office PC's like the HP elitedesk line, as they are sold in large amounts by institutions like colleges when they are done with them. You should replace the SSD on them, as the SSD is commonly replaced with a really crappy one that is likely to die on yout.

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Some colleges sometimes sell there old computers, try looking into that.