Home Gaming Server

discoally · 5 Sep 2017 at 09:31

Hi everyone,

I was looking for a little advice from you. I'm planning on building a home server for ARK and Teamspeak, maybe a different game in the future.

Would an E5-2670 and 16gb of ram do the job? I was planning on having 2x 500gb hdd in raid and a gt 1030 or something to provide the required graphics.

What I would really like to know is will the E5-2670 be a major bottleneck? Will it useful for a few years 2-3 anyway?

Thank you in advance.

Steveocee · 5 Sep 2017 at 12:13

For teamspeak a Pi would kill it, having said that. Discord is free and seems to be the "norm" these days. Can't really comment on the ARK thing as have never run one.

neodude · 9 Sep 2017 at 15:16

I run a Rust server on a Ubuntu VM with 4 cores of my E5-2670 passed through and 16GB RAM. Appears to work fine. I'm not sure about ARK but I know the Unity engine in Rust is only single threaded so only one of those cores will be getting used.

I just run a teamspeak server as a docker.

discoally · 13 Sep 2017 at 16:09

How many players on your server usually? Rust and ARK both seem like they enjoy single core love.

neodude · 14 Sep 2017 at 11:40

3 or 4 at the most (It's very new, lol). The number of players isn't usually the issue, it's the number of "Entities". That's why I try and keep my map fairly small and limit players to 50 max, it should reduce the number of items on the server.