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Part one of the series focused on planning and assembling the ultimate Minecraft server hardware, including a water cooling system and a custom enclosure. The team describes using two Intel Core i9 9900K processors, each with 32 GB of DDR4 memory, and a total of two 1 TB PCIe NVMe drives for storage. Power is supplied by an 800 watt SFX-L unit, and they face a power budget constraint due to a splitter that supports roughly 425 watts. The plan is to water-cool both the CPUs and their VRMs using EK blocks to manage overclocking stress without component failures. Early on they discuss overclocking, thermal paste application, and the challenges of aligning high performance with reliable cooling in a compact chassis. Concrete, testable details anchor this section: the processors, memory, storage, cooling strategy, and the rationale for a complex enclosure despite space limitations.

Topics · hardware_build · gaming_servers · computer_hardware · overclocking · modding

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How many Minecraft servers were configured for the test and how were they connected?
Eight Minecraft servers were configured within a Proxmox cluster and connected using a BungeeCord setup to present a single IP while supporting multi-server gameplay.