I have a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 8GB of RAM, and I’m looking for a bit more powerful solution that would have similar power consumption. I would like to host a Minecraft server, but chunks take too long to generate. Do you have any recommendations?
To give a different opinion than all the thin-clients, old laptops can be a good choice too. I am a bit preferrential to really nice old thinkpads.
If you buy them used you can get insane prices (~$40) and also you get all the laptop conveniences of a keyboard, screen, battery (for power failure). Also I think the power/performance ratio is pretty much the same to the thin clients.
check out the orange pi 5 and 5 plus. you’ll most likely have to purchase from aliexpress but could be what you’re after.
I use an Odroid N2+ running DietPi (Debian) for my home server. My kids and their cousins play a Minecraft world together and I haven’t heard any complaints. It’s my plex server and a web site, too. https://www.makeuseof.com/odroid-n2-raspberry-pi-4-compared/
I assume you’re not transcoding anything.
looks like they’re more than a Pi where I am anyway though.
Yeah, direct play only. Nothing over 1080p.
OrangePi makes a decent solution with a built-in 8GB eMMC module. Makes it much faster. Dunno if you are CPU or IO bound on the RPi4.
Have you checked out the ODROID? https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus
Assuming you’ve got a spare SSD and RAM lying around, this could be a great option and is x86 rather than arm.
I recently got a beelink mini with an N95 and 8gb of ram and the thing rips, running Proxmox with a few linux and windows VMS all sharing resources, replaced 2 pi3s and a pi4 with it for my home automation services.
Only trouble I’m having is hardware iGPU passthrough is iffy, but that might just be me not having the linux-fu to get it working stably.
You can’t have more calculation power for the same electrical power consumption. A thin clirnt with an i3 or i5 maybe.
luckily smaller process nodes and architecture refinements are a thing, my dude.
This guy took moores law and threw it out the window
And which piece of consumer hardware offers more computing power (relevant for minecraft server) for the same amount of electrical power than a rpi4?
A faster CPU with a power limit applied lol
Yeah an HP Elite Desk Mini or HP Pro Desk Mini would be great.
