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CaptainMuricaDaniel Weston
You need a powerful CPU to run Minecraft with a good FPS rate. Its a CPU bound game and so even if you had an 980ti with a core2duo you'd be limited.
Basically for what he wants to do he needs an i5 and a gtx960 or better graphics card with 8gb of RAM.
No, you don't need a powerful CPU to run Minecraft. Source: I have no issue running Minecraft with a Pentium G3258 and GTX 660 Ti at well over 150 FPS with background programs running. I also had no issue running Minecraft with a Core 2 Duo E8600 and GTX 750 Ti at over 100 FPS.
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An i5 is complete overkill for Minecraft unless OP plans to stream or record, and so is a GTX 960 unless he wants to run high-quality shader packs.
You seem to be contradicting yourself as well. You say that Minecraft relies heavily on single-core performance, yet say a 2-core CPU will not run it as well as a 4-core CPU.Daniel WestonIt would run similar to the I7 listed above as Minecraft doesn't actually take advantage of hyperthreading at the moment (it is heavily single core based).
CaptainMuricaMinecraft doesn't require a powerful CPU to run, so you could easily get away with a modern Pentium, Athlon II x4, or Core i3. For graphics, you'll want at least a GTX 950 to get 60 FPS at 1080p with good shader packs. I own a 750 Ti and it can only hit 60 FPS with medium-quality shader packs, like SEUS Standard and KUDA Medium.CarbonMCI don't know much about computers either, but the only thing I can say is the Memory (RAM) is really important as well! Good luck with your computer!
As long as you have enough RAM (8GB is standard these days), you don't need to worry about it.
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