I am building a mini-ITX Linux computer for my son. Will the onboard graphics be enough for playing minecraft?
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The I3-4130 has 4400 Graphics built into it and Minecraft indicates that it needs at least Intel GMA 950 to run, so this should work, though I am not sure how high you can run it at and I cannot claim to have run Minecraft on the built in graphics of this chip. I have a separate graphics card installed. One thing to keep in mind as long as you don't run into any driver issues with Linux is that the onboard graphics takes some of the system RAM and I am not sure if you'll be able to adjust the amount of memory dedicated to graphics. On a Windows system, I'd recommend at least 8 gigs to avoid problems. Linux might be able to run and share memory with less, I don't know offhand. Good luck with this. The I3-4130 has 4400 Graphics built into it and Minecraft indicates that it needs at least Intel GMA 950 to run, so this should work, though I am not sure how high you can run it at and I cannot claim to have run Minecraft on the built in graphics of this chip. I have a separate graphics card installed. One thing to keep in mind as long as you don't run into any driver issues with Linux is that the onboard graphics takes some of the system RAM and I am not sure if you'll be able to adjust the amount of memory dedicated to graphics. On a Windows system, I'd recommend at least 8 gigs to avoid... » Read More The I3-4130 has 4400 Graphics built into it and Minecraft indicates that it needs at least Intel GMA 950 to run, so this should work, though I am not sure how high you can run it at and I cannot claim to have run Minecraft on the built in graphics of this chip. I have a separate graphics card installed. One thing to keep in mind as long as you don't run into any driver issues with Linux is that the onboard graphics takes some of the system RAM and I am not sure if you'll be able to adjust the amount of memory dedicated to graphics. On a Windows system, I'd recommend at least 8 gigs to avoid problems. Linux might be able to run and share memory with less, I don't know offhand. Good luck with this. « Show Less
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It also depends on what motherboard/chipset you end up using but the processor itself is more than capable of handling minecraft
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The onboard video will be fine for Minecraft, just make sure you have enough ram to share with it.
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It depends, Vanilla Minecraft definitely, and most modpacks yes. I play a modpack with 290 mods in it and it runs around 60-80 FPS. If you get shaders with mods though you'll probably notice a decline in performance, but shaders are very demanding. If you only play Vanilla Minecraft and not many other demanding games, you could get a much cheaper card. This card is for running games at 1440p and is one of the top end cards right now. For just Minecraft look at maybe a 270 or something, you'll save money but still have some room left for if you want to install mods.
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No. As I and others have said in previous comments/reviews, this is NOT a gaming laptop. Minecraft BASIC system requirements specify a separate video chipset (no integrated chipsets) and a faster processor than this computer has. This computer is perfect for normal, non-gaming, non-processor/graphics-intensive computing (office apps, browsing, email, basic media manipulation, streaming sound and video content, etc.), but it is NOT a gaming computer. If good performance in Minecraft is essential for you, up your game and spend the bucks necessary to get a computer with a faster processor, a decent, standalone (non-integrated) video chipset/controller and, although Minecraft specs say 4GB is OK (as long as processor is fast enough and video chipset has its own memory, etc.), I'd AT LEAST double that.
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In theory, you can, but I will take some work. You would need to switch it to running Linux, then recompile the Minecraft stuff to work on ARM instead of x86. That requires the source code, which I'm unsure is available.
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Absolutely. It is way past the "recommended" system requirements on Mojang site: https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/325948-minecraft-system-requirementsIf you look at the wiki page linked there, you'll see the GT 740M running it 1366×768 at 140fps, this laptop is slower by not more than 25% slower, so you should be in 60-80fps range easily, making it nice and smooth.
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This should run that just fine. I run a dedicated Minecraft server in Linux Mint with 1.5GB of RAM allocated to the Java process. It hardly ever goes over 10% CPU usage.
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Like your playing games on it or hosting? If u are playing a graphics card along with a riser would be needed, for OS windows. If your hosting you would want the OS to be linux(Ubuntu) and nothing else needed.
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Yes it can run Minecraft. To know if other programs will work, simply Google the name of the program with "system requirements" at the end.
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It will run League with all the setting maxed out. Don't know about minecraft.
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It's great. That is pretty much all my son uses his computer for; to play minecraft!
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My son plays minecraft on it all the time. It is a good computer for gaming.
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I don't know because I am running Linux on it. But this motherboard performs way better than 2 other mini-itx boards I bought recently. I wish I had found this board sooner.
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Yes. I bought it for my son; he plays Minecraft and Plants vs Zombies on it often.
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This graphics card and your RAM is definitely enough, but you'll probably want to bump up to 3.8+ghz to have the game running smoothly, although I'm pretty sure you'll be able to run them on medium or low lettings without issue.
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A Titan Black should be able to run minecraft with the graphics set at 5-D on an 512k monitor. Yes!
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I can't swear it will but its specs appear to exceed minecraft's minimum specs. They do recommend, however, "if you have a laptop with an a built-in (integrated) graphics card, rather than a dedicated card, it is highly suggested that you try the demo before purchase." The X501A has such an integrated card.
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This laptop has right around the minimum required processing power needed for Mine Craft. I would say you can probably use it for games in such however a bit more processing speed may be needed.