Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I HAVE A NEW VIDEO! Watch the updated version here:
youtu.be/bAGTwBURBXc


I love to see what old hardware can do! So in this video, we're seeing if an Athlon ii x4 640 can handle running a Minecraft server using the optimized PaperMC Server.

Links:
Ubuntu Server: ubuntu.com/download/server
Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
PaperMC Container: hub.docker.com/r/marctv/minecraft-papermc-server
DuckDNS Container: docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-duckdns
EssentialsX: essentialsx.net/downloads.html

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Music (in order):
"Hardware Haven Theme" - Me
"Haggstrom" - C418
"Moog City" - C418
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 What Is This Video?
1:00 The Hardware
1:49 The Software
2:47 What We're Going To Do
3:40 Installing Ubuntu Server
8:14 SSH, Docker Running
12:29 Pulling PaperMC Container
16:00 Testing Local MC Server
17:38 DHCP Reservation & Port Forwarding
19:42 DDNS (Duck DNS)
23:53 Testing Server Over WAN
25:06 Plugins (EssentialsX) & Commands
28:11 How It Ran
29:30 Power Consumption
30:02 Final Thoughts