Hello Minecraftians!So I'm buying a new PC, cause my old PC is getting pretty bad at running Minecraft. And my budget is $750,I'm going to mainly play Minecraft, and have a few mods,texture packs, and shader pack. And I want something that is capable of running Minecraft very smooth, or something close to no lag at all.If you need more info just ask!
Just build one your self or ask one to build one for you its better since you can decide on the parts you want. My self I would recommend a computer with 8GB of ram or more, SSD, A good graphics card and good CPU 3.00 GHZ or higher (I like Intel my self).
No, not really. It wouldn't be terrible, if you had no other options, but you can do a lot better if you build one yourself. (and you get the fun of doing it, too!)
I'd suggest taking a look at some of the budget PC builds out there (Tom's hardware and Maximum PC have some good builds to use as starting points)
I'd recommend pluging their builds into PC parts picker, then adjust things to suit your priorities. I'm sure lots of us on here will give you our opinions of these builds too. : )
RAM is kind of an oddball thing: If you've got less than 2Gb of it than upgrading it will probably make a noticeable difference. If you've got 4, upgrading to 8 will probably help a bit, but not immensely. If you've got 8, upgrading probably won't help at all unless you're planning on running minecraft off a RAMdisk. Law of decreasing returns, I suppose.
RAM < 2Gb, upgrade!
RAM = 4 Gb, could increase, but expect only small improvements.
RAM = 8 Gb, increasing beyond this won't do much at all.
(for vanilla, anyway. Might be different depending on your mods, textures, etc. If you're running a server with 100 players while running MC with high def textures, shader packs, and other mods, then having more than 8 Gb RAM might be a good thing.)
RAM is kind of an oddball thing: If you've got less than 2Gb of it than upgrading it will probably make a noticeable difference. If you've got 4, upgrading to 8 will probably help a bit, but not immensely. If you've got 8, upgrading probably won't help at all unless you're planning on running minecraft off a RAMdisk. Law of decreasing returns, I suppose.
RAM < 2Gb, upgrade!
RAM = 4 Gb, could increase, but expect only small improvements.
RAM = 8 Gb, increasing beyond this won't do much at all.
(for vanilla, anyway. Might be different depending on your mods, textures, etc. If you're running a server with 100 players while running MC with high def textures, shader packs, and other mods, then having more than 8 Gb RAM might be a good thing.)
In voltages case the ram isn't holding him back the rest of his specs are likely terrible.
RAM is kind of an oddball thing: If you've got less than 2Gb of it than upgrading it will probably make a noticeable difference. If you've got 4, upgrading to 8 will probably help a bit, but not immensely. If you've got 8, upgrading probably won't help at all unless you're planning on running minecraft off a RAMdisk. Law of decreasing returns, I suppose.
RAM < 2Gb, upgrade!
RAM = 4 Gb, could increase, but expect only small improvements.
RAM = 8 Gb, increasing beyond this won't do much at all.
(for vanilla, anyway. Might be different depending on your mods, textures, etc. If you're running a server with 100 players while running MC with high def textures, shader packs, and other mods, then having more than 8 Gb RAM might be a good thing.)
That is BS. Minecraft without mods only uses about 512MB of RAM, and allocating more won't increase performance at all.
Ummm... Those RAM amounts were total amounts in the system, not the amount assigned to Minecraft. 2 Gb RAM for a system running windows 7 or 8. Considering that, at least on my system, the OS, Firefox with 3 tabs open, and steam (just sitting their, not dling or anything) uses over 2.7 Gb of RAM... Upgrading to 4 will most deffinitely help things up. Everything, not just Minecraft, although it'll probably help that, too.
But all that is a moot point, as the system he posted up for consideration has 8Gb. Which is more than enough. Could run Minecraft off a RAM disk with that, which *would* help performance, or at least chunk loading, if you don't count that as part of performance.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-ideacentre-k450-desktop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive/3275001.p?id=1219091559948&skuId=3275001&st=pcmcat287600050002_categoryid$abcat0501000&cp=3&lp=3
P.S Don't be all "EWWW Lenovo!" :I
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I'd suggest taking a look at some of the budget PC builds out there (Tom's hardware and Maximum PC have some good builds to use as starting points)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/budget-gaming-pc,3854.html
http://www.maximumpc.com/build_pc_recommended_builds_april_2014
I'd recommend pluging their builds into PC parts picker, then adjust things to suit your priorities. I'm sure lots of us on here will give you our opinions of these builds too. : )
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/
Oh wait, it's a Hummer.
Memory is but one aspect of performance, and frankly matters quite a lot less that other components.
That's because the rest of your specs are not good the ram is not holding you back.
RAM < 2Gb, upgrade!
RAM = 4 Gb, could increase, but expect only small improvements.
RAM = 8 Gb, increasing beyond this won't do much at all.
(for vanilla, anyway. Might be different depending on your mods, textures, etc. If you're running a server with 100 players while running MC with high def textures, shader packs, and other mods, then having more than 8 Gb RAM might be a good thing.)
In voltages case the ram isn't holding him back the rest of his specs are likely terrible.
That is BS. Minecraft without mods only uses about 512MB of RAM, and allocating more won't increase performance at all.
No it wouldn't change performance by allocating more ram.
Did you read my post?
Thanks
Thanks?
But all that is a moot point, as the system he posted up for consideration has 8Gb. Which is more than enough. Could run Minecraft off a RAM disk with that, which *would* help performance, or at least chunk loading, if you don't count that as part of performance.
Didn't see that ._.