Turning my old pc into a gaming server, please help

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Xavier Moavero

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Hello,
I have started looking into turning my old (2008) Dell Vostro 200 (semi-modified) into a server to play a few games with my friends (minecraft, Terraria, or Space Engineers) It had some work done on it. The tower says it has an intel Core 2 duo, but it actually has a Pentium (R) dual core 2.2Ghz. It has 2Gb of RAM but i have 2 more that i could easily install (it is DDR2). I would just like to know what i need to do to convert it into a server or if there are any important things to know. I would like suggestions on what OS to get for it (it has winxp, but i don't trust it too much)
Thanks in advance! :)
Update: I will only have 1 server program running at a time
 
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Windows 7 64-BIT if you want more RAM! <- Important.
It really just relies on the RAM as it has to process handles off and onto the server really so that's all you need to upgrade.
If you can try get DDR3 if your mobo supports it. If not invest in everything later if it's not too important.
 
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Xavier Moavero

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I was under the impression that linux was the way to go for a server, and its very inexpensive, why win7? also, i dont think the processor is 64 bit
 
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No the Windows has to be 64-bit :p
If you have good experience with Linux and you will cope on it then go ahead but I do prefer Windows. I do host dedicated servers for Garry's Mod, Minecraft etc. on Windows 7 and you'll get pretty good GUI interfaces with Minecraft too.
 
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Xavier Moavero

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The CPU is 32 bit and i was hoping to not spend over $100 on windows 7 so that i could host a minecraft server on it
 
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I actually don't think you can host a very good minecraft server with only 4 gbs of RAM.

Minecraft is extremely ram intensive game for the server, WAY more than other typical server based games, because minecraft has a ton of things you don't see but it has to keep track of.
 
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Xavier Moavero

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well i wasnt only going to use it for that, Space Engineers just came out with dedicated servers so thats another i would do. that game isnt very memory itnensive
 
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I turned my old laptop into a minecraft server, didn't need to change anything.

however when we modded the server or tried to play space engineers it would lag because the server couldn't keep up.

Think it had 4gb of RAM, cant remember Cpu though sorry.
 
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I know this is an old post that no one will read most likely but still, I thought I'd just tell you that the reason its so RAM intensive is due to it being programmed in Java and the way that language is optimised and handle garbage collection.

Source: Software Developer
 
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