• RagingToad@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Lower power is ARM, but aren’t X86 CPUs not still a lot faster? (While my Raspberry Pi 4 can barely run a Minecraft server, my 50$ SFF can run 2 servers at the same time and still has plenty of CPU cycles left)

    Power consumption is higher ofcourse, but I exchanged 3 Pi’s (3*10W) with one SFF (25W) so it’s fine :-)

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      1 year ago

      That’s a design consideration, not an actual problem. Remember the pi is also not running natively, and that the quite good M chips from Apple are ARM-based.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t fully understand. What’s the design consideration? My biggest problem is actually that the least power hungry CPU (arm) has very little options if you want to run a server with a bit more processing power.

        If you mean that Minecraft is not native… this is Java , so everything runs in the JVM independent of platform.

        I might need a Mac Mini as a server and install Linux on it (is that still an option?) like some kind of NUC…