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I have researched this and there appears to be no advantage to using server processors over desktop processors for minecraft. You could even call it a disadvantage because of the wasted money. Although MC uses around 63 threads its still mostly a single threaded engine. It seems like having more than 4 cores is completely pointless, and the real bottleneck is CPU and RAM clock speeds. Server processors are meant for when you have a very large number of threads and need as many processing cores as possible, while MC will almost never utilize more than three. --Khlorghaal 04:02, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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