I have used a 10th Gen i5 for hosting a Minecraft server in the past, and with 16GB of ram allocated it did great, even with more than a dozen people on at one time. We ran a few light mods, nothing crazy.
The only time it didn’t run smooth was when we would have a server event and spawned tons of mods, have a bunch of explosions, had a bunch of red stone running ect.
Even if the person was connect via LAN, they had the same lag as everyone else, so I don’t think networking made a difference. (I could be wrong though)
I know that stuff incurs lag no matter what, but assuming no other bottlenecks, does anyone thing the tons of extra L3 Cache on X3Ds would make a difference?
Yes, the additional L3 cache in X3D processors can make a difference, especially during heavy loads like explosions or mod-heavy events. This could reduce latency and improve server performance by reducing data management bottlenecks.