Building the ULTIMATE Minecraft Server

I played about a total of 20 minutes of Minecraft in my life and I gave up every time cuz I had no idea what the heck I was even supposed to do so when Jake stormed into my office and asked to spend work hours building an official LTTE minecraft server my answer was fairly concise no of course Jake being Jake he went ahead and did it unofficially on his own time then came back into my office saying look how cool this is by the way now that it's all cool you can have it if you compensate me for those hours and he's right it is pretty cool so here we go if we're gonna make a minecraft server it better be the best server that money can buy so with the help of proto case we are going to design fabricate and then deploy the ultimate minecraft server build with not one but two 9900 K processors inside a single 2u chassis with a whole heck of a lot of water cooling today's video is brought to you by arrazi stay cool and comfortable for hours with our Ozzy's new breathable furniture fabric edition chair use code Linus Tekkit arrazi comm to get 10% off [Music] so our use case here is obviously very specific we want to be able to run as many ballin minecraft server instances as we possibly can and because minecraft Java Edition is so dependent on single threaded performance this is one of those special cases we're running Z on or epic in a server would result in a much worse experience for the users than frankensteining together some desktop hardware so then given we were after the highest single-threaded performance possible and intel hadn't launched ninety nine hundred KS yet we hooked up with the guys over at silicon lottery who were able to provide us with a discount on a core i nine ninety nine hundred k cpu that's been pre validated to run at five gigahertz on all course so basically it's a ninety nine hundred KS then for our second system we stole the bins ninety nine hundred K from gigabytes water for skit which means we should be able to have eight separate minecraft server instances all with their own overclocked 9900 cake or per CPU for a total of sixteen not too shabby but wait a second line is you can't run dual CPUs on consumer hardware well you can if you run two motherboards so our clever idea was to grab a pair of overclocking capable mini ITX motherboards and then cram them into a single case we settled on the asus strix z 390 i now this kind of a deployment could have negatively impacted the amount of ram we could install but thanks to some recent developments in memory technology we can actually equip each of our boards with these double density dims allowing us to fit 64 gigs of ram on to each of our i TX systems so java minecraft servers want about 4 gigs of ram per instance which means that we can run a handful of those with extra ram left over if we want to run a couple of our instances in a non-standard configuration with large mod packs which would need to be stored in system memory now if you're running a simple minecraft server for you and your friends storage size probably isn't going to be a huge concern but on our system we're going with dual one terabyte m2 and DME SSDs in a software raid one configuration for each board this allows us to load many different game modes onto our systems and allows us to use moderation and management tools like core protect which logs every single interaction that takes place on the server so modification to a block adding or removing something from an inventory etc etc so griefers can be dealt with more easily as a badge each interaction is pretty small in terms of storage size but it adds up pretty quickly if you've got hundreds of players and weeks of logs now because a standard ATX power supply unit won't fit in our 2-u thickness target we opted for an 800 watt SF XL unit from silverstone that should still give us a ton of headroom even though it's gonna be powering both systems through this fancy fantex power splitter that they don't sell anymore for whatever reason or because no one wants to do that right by the way thanks person from Twitter for sending that to us you rock so then that's a lot of hardware to cram into something this thick so rather than yoloing it we started by laying out the components first in Autodesk AutoCAD to get an idea of how long our chassis was going to end up needing to be with all the cooling that we wanted to cram into it the original plan was to run regular 360 millimeter PC radiators like in our water-cooled transcode server but since we did that project alpha cool has actually started making 80 millimeter radiators specifically designed for use in to you servers they even have mounting holes on the sides of the radiators so you can just screw them in from underneath the chassis these things are freaking sweet with Vallejo complete Jake started on the 3d design we took some cues from back glazes storage pod servers but scaled them down to meet our two-year requirement this means most of the chassis is composed of one large sheet for the bottom and sides with screw and modular panels for the front back and top of the case we then added some flair to the front with LTT logo fangirls lots of holes for our radiators and then a big ole cutout up front so that we could mount a five and a quarter inch bay reservoir it happens to fit in our 2-u form factor absolutely perfectly and the us to easily monitor our coolant levels without pulling the system out of the rack because of the standardized 19-inch rack mount width we couldn't fit our power supply in the back of the case if we also wanted access to both of our motherboards i/o so we took some inspiration from modern small form-factor PC designs and opted to internally mount the power supply and then plug it in with a cable pass-through that we got whipped up by infinite cables after that Jake added some small chassis support bars in the middle of the case to keep it rigid made a huge cutout in the top panel for some acrylic then we sent over the designs to proto case so this type of a one-off chassis is the perfect thing to have fabbed up by a company like proto case there are no minimum quantity policy and two to three day lead time for most projects is practically unmatched in the industry and that's made them the choice for more than 14,000 engineers and makers from around the world including at companies like NASA Boeing Google MIT and more now they did want us to mention however that the cost of a one-off case like this would be anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 dollars meaning it wouldn't be practical for the average home gamer but for our purposes this was absolutely perfect so now it's just time to show you the process of throwing the pieces together for our dry fit before we get started on the finished build so I guess it starts with the unboxing and bubble wrap what is this really that's like the top panel okay cool we're part of it anyways oh my god if that cracked it would be very bad it's not gonna crack you just want the world to burn hey oh stop it doesn't make a cool noise they don't make a cool noise well some assembly required for our chassis here normally they will assemble it for you but some of these bits were easier and safer to ship separately so oh that's the point I think the kid huh hopefully I fixed it isn't sponsoring this episode Oh check this out guys I spent far too much time on that that is our fan grill check it out LTT logos all up in this biz it's gonna look so great when there's just like beige and brown behind it to forget popping it oh this is sick I know thank you so here it is guys this is the back of our chassis where our two motherboards go as well as our power pass-through they're a little bit offset you'll notice and that's so the motherboards actually sit centered relative to each other in the chassis ooh but we forget to put real notes on it uh it would appear so we can just tap those right we could also just like let it rest on something else and over here is the business end so this is where our five and a quarter inch bei res and on the outside oh is that gonna increase the pro I don't think it does let's go on the inside I designed it it definitely goes on the outside I don't believe thank you very much pirozhkis fixed your bad design because it's on the outside it wouldn't slide into a row I mean like on the outside like it goes in from this side no it doesn't go no I don't know yeah I see I see where the miscommunication is no it like it comes in from the outside it's not how it works top is freaking awesome so as you can see it's gonna be basically all acrylic top so we can see all of our water cooling components in there oh wow what's the help that is some strong plastic on that yeah yeah I had to use a knife to get it up oh oh my god you just almost got myself in the eye Oh should we just use the vibration dampers look at this oh yeah this is gonna be real tight cake wow those look terrible yeah it doesn't really just use the screws okay fine forget it oh god these this plastic is like oh it's like Kevlar reinforced plastics I am really into these they fit it to you and they're like really designed for it like these recessed fittings allow you to sandwich fans in between them if you want these side fittings and these rear fitting holes allow you to have any flow configuration that you want it's got mounting holes on the bottom super cool coppers expensive oh boy wait sometimes things just work so we're not gonna plumb it up today but in order to do a decent test fit we do at least need to mount our radiators and put the fans on them we've designed our rads to screw in from the bottom and then go together so tightly so we're gonna have what is it three of them three yep so Jake's working on the last one right there you pop these together there we go how much radiator is that my friends why are you taking out that one it goes here I'm taking one off I might as well take them both off now would be a really bad time for these screws about line up oh oh what it has to go in the other way oh God really yeah no it's right what are you talking about oh wait it's flipped on the other side what the crap yeah that's fine no I thought about this very extensively good I was doing this because I really didn't want to go whoa these are going in no problems perfect everything lines up great oh it's always nice when things work out hey I'm gonna give myself a cookie for that oh wow how sure are you that that acrylic is going on here with these cables oh not very that's pretty tight like we were thinking maybe we could put it here or something but I don't think so so then we came up with the idea so our reservoir fits perfectly these ports over here these are for like lights fill drain and then this is the inlet and that's the outlet it uses a d5 pump I don't think it's technically a d5 is it not technically 85 no VPP six five five teens based on the same it's a d5 but yeah it has variable speed control it's nice so it's a defy very open so our outlet is gonna come out here go into our radiators and our Inlet is gonna come probably all the way from the front up the side okay that's gonna be a long yeah sorry in the back that is gonna be a long tubing run oh no they're too loose oh it's the stupid that's actually a problem we will just not put in the IO shield and we'll just thread them in not quite all the way you know what actually take hold on a second with them not quite screwed in all the way it lines up perfectly so we can just put some Loctite glue in these well it's a bit high not barely look at it look at this side this sides not on but there's a click you see this like that exposed metal is like that on that side - it's as close as anything in this project Wow Wow so normally you would install your m2 SSD under this spreader and put it back on but as this gigantic heatsink on it so we're gonna go ahead just install it and leave it like that wait we have a problem Jake okay how do we install the second SSD that's on the bottom right but we have the crazy space so it's fine we have a crazy space this much space so we've got the bottom one installed there there's our dual SSDs yeah now obviously we're aware that this cooler is not gonna fit in our case might stick out the top a little bit you know but again this is just test fitting we are gonna move to water cooling for the finished build where's our power supply go it's gonna go right here facing the wall it is SF XL 800 watts 120 millimeter fan do you see it's not really necessary but this server is going to be shockingly quiet so that's gonna go kind of like what darish okay so yeah that can go there this will go in between the boards right about yeah this is plenty long make sure the total power consumption of your two motherboards is not higher than 452 watts if your motherboard oh boy screw it wow this thing is pretty crusty hey guy on Twitter sent it to us it was sitting in his closet for like a year so I'm sure was oh yeah I guess we could do that just feel wiper it yeah should be might not be pretty but it'll work all right there now for real is done we can't slide the server onto the table because we haven't shaved the bottom of those standoffs yet well we could just see the tables so banged up already you can barely they stick out like this far really we would be gouging that table put it out from here oh my god there goes the bay reservoir ha ha ha it's great because you almost did it before and then actually did it now is it cracked why didn't mean that you know what it's fine no it's fine don't get it what if it's not it's fine see you know it's fine are you sure yeah it's fine all right so this is it we've got our minecraft server set up this is just one and we are ready to do a quick test so I just go now right yeah be good for it good to go to tell you the IP but yeah scanning for games on your local network nope 10.20 does 6.18 yeah not to type in an IP smart guy I'm not saying you're stupid i just i'm firewall thing or something on the local connection well I mean Windows has a firewall thing I have to click away I don't know your Linux oh my god maybe yeah I'm pinging yeah and nothing's happening did you just say you are an assload you're an assload hey I hope the thing you did I was just so astounded that the minimal install of this OS comes with a pre enabled firewall hey do you wanna fly don't know what fly a fly what do you want to fly no I wanna I wanna crash you hold the button you know it takes this long to harvest one friggin piece of wood you're punching it with your hand well we tried to cut down a tree with your hand before yeah well then that's totally unrealistic for a completely different reason and wait why does the tree stay like this how does that worry just like so she's just an automatically generated world yeah so there's like a seed for every world that's like what it's space I understand what I see today type slash speed you go really fast look at that world Jenna baby we haven't even overclocked a server either Wow we rip in boys I'm gonna crank the server to like 30 to render distance or something crazy like that I mean 32 seems like a lot why don't we just do like I already said it to 32 okay ah it's more it's it's chugging a little it's trying that's a lot of rendered if intent 10 of 10 definitely trying oh no the poor server how does our CPU doing over there oh we're pegged at 100% 100% ok so this is it this is peak minecraft server well we haven't even overclocked yet what do you mean so this is all being generated in real times mm-hmm this is very unrepresentative of what we would actually do oh yeah no this is totally unfair oh boy it's full it's not having a great time right now it's trying there we go oh I thought it just froze oh no you're just letting it it's doing it I love it oh yeah spit up some of us are adults and have things to do take so stay tuned for part two we're gonna water pool that thing we're gonna overclock that thing and we're gonna get it live so you guys can join see you there Oh after this message from our sponsor Corsairs hydro ax series of custom water cooling components makes it simple to pick out a high-performance water cooling loop for your gaming rig there XC 7 and XC 9 RGB CPU blocks look fantastic and do a great job of pulling heat away from your CPU there XG 7 completely converts your graphics card to water cooling and of course they've got tons of other components that you need including their reservoir and pump combo that can mount to a fan or to your case pretty much anywhere it's got really versatile mounting their fittings their adapters their tubing the list pretty much goes on so check out their entire lineup today at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys see ya

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 2,993,234

Rating: 4.9380994 out of 5

Keywords: linux, gaming, minecraft, pewdiepie, lets play, server, hypixel, video games, hardware, fabrication, design, intel, 9900k, overclocked, watercooling, ekwb, asus, alphacool, noctua, creeper

Id: Y4uIvK8Y7t8

Length: 18min 6sec (1086 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 22 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/koningoliver]

Are they running paper ?

[u/_Kristian_]

That is pretty fricking cool

[u/nicePenguin]

This actually made me excited to play Minecraft again