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dream game server?
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crazy as in dual athlon 2X00's w/ 1-2 gb of ram
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crazy as in 8 way opteron 2 ghz and 8 gigs ram and SCSI drives
Whats your price range?
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crazy as in 8 way opteron 2 ghz and 8 gigs ram and SCSI drives
Whats your price range?
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I don't understand the confusion these days on this topic
Basic hyperthreading P4
Gig o ram
Solid T connection
But most important, a good manager that knows how to advertise the server as well as he can manage it.
Its a server, just has to handle the data and bandwidth.
So far as the games go, anything but they should be run for a couple of years not a couple of months.
Basic hyperthreading P4
Gig o ram
Solid T connection
But most important, a good manager that knows how to advertise the server as well as he can manage it.
Its a server, just has to handle the data and bandwidth.
So far as the games go, anything but they should be run for a couple of years not a couple of months.
If the server is just for dedicated use of say a game or website why spend all this money? Your better off spending it firstly on a damn good WAN connection say minimum of 100MB upstream and down stream 100% dedicated. And you can run an FTP ,HTTP server off a 1Ghz processor with 128MB ram, I'm currenlty running 2 websites, 1 FTP server and a BF1942 Dedicated server off the following:
100MB Up & down stream Fiber Optic dedicated Line
Shuttle XPC SN45G
Athlon XP 2500 + (Overclocked to Athlon XP 3200 + speeds)
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200 DDR RAM
120Gb Seagate Baracuda
If on the other hand your going to be using it for a heap of otherstuff then i can understand.
but as itizme says for a game servers its more about advertising and Admin, No point having a state of the art server with a good WAN connection and no admin or 56k dailup. If you want a good Desert Combat server try www.ocg.sergame.com or ocg.servegame.com in the game browser engine.
100MB Up & down stream Fiber Optic dedicated Line
Shuttle XPC SN45G
Athlon XP 2500 + (Overclocked to Athlon XP 3200 + speeds)
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200 DDR RAM
120Gb Seagate Baracuda
If on the other hand your going to be using it for a heap of otherstuff then i can understand.
but as itizme says for a game servers its more about advertising and Admin, No point having a state of the art server with a good WAN connection and no admin or 56k dailup. If you want a good Desert Combat server try www.ocg.sergame.com or ocg.servegame.com in the game browser engine.
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Dual AMD setup (XP's or Modded Bartons)
Lots of RAM
and a FAT internet pipe
the rest can be like pci vid, no sound and a 15" monitor
Lots of RAM
and a FAT internet pipe
the rest can be like pci vid, no sound and a 15" monitor
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A pair of 1700's or a single Barton; Gig of RAM; RAID 1 or 5 array; nice big pipeline; games like BF1942/Desert Combat need about a T1 line for about 12 players
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9mmCensor
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dual opteron would be nice as well... also yeah a nice fast raid setup is always good.
or a beauwulf cluster of 10 or so P4C- 2.4 oced to oh say 3.0ghz
or a beauwulf cluster of 10 or so P4C- 2.4 oced to oh say 3.0ghz
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That would be absoutley horrible for a game server.9mmCensor said:
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my dream server would have to include a fast fast fast internet connection(OC-3 or higher would be nice).
Probably have a dual opteron system, a few gigs of ram and it would have to host 64 player bf matches.
Probably have a dual opteron system, a few gigs of ram and it would have to host 64 player bf matches.
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prbably but it would be fun to play (not games) withBigRed said:
Penguin4x4 said:A pair of 1700's or a single Barton; Gig of RAM; RAID 1 or 5 array; nice big pipeline; games like BF1942/Desert Combat need about a T1 line for about 12 players
a T1 is 1.544Mbits both up and down, FPS games usually take 3 ~ 5kbytes per second upload for each player. It should be able to support up to 50 players.
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striping has slower seek time, not a good idea for gaming server as you want the ping as low as possible. SCSI is a better idea.
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hmmm.....
POWER5 eight-way processor from IBM,
SCSI RAID5 setup with 15k RPM drives
4gig of RAM
OC45
Now, that would handle any kind of servers
POWER5 eight-way processor from IBM,
SCSI RAID5 setup with 15k RPM drives
4gig of RAM
OC45
Now, that would handle any kind of servers
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That's my dream one, but if you want one obtainable (this one is atleast $5M) then I'd go for a dual Opteron 242 with a dual 10k SCSI 18GB RAID 0 setup. Running Linux of course.
- 106 UltraSPARC III's running at 1.2GHz a piece
- 576 GB memory
- 10GbE connection to multiple OC48(or OC192, are those implemented yet?) backbones
- 2TB HD Storage on SCSI HDs
That's my dream one, but if you want one obtainable (this one is atleast $5M) then I'd go for a dual Opteron 242 with a dual 10k SCSI 18GB RAID 0 setup. Running Linux of course.
