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Old 20th September 2005   #1 (permalink)
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ive been looking about and noticed some companies have been using dual opteron servers and amd athlons to host there game servers and im looking to make a couple of servers but i just wondering what you guys think would be best value money wise as i noticed amd opterons cost alot compared to athlons and p4's.
At the moment i use p4 3.0ghz with 1gb ram but they are mainly sold of as whole dedi's at the moment :P but they arnt good enough if i need to compete with the game server market properly


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i was thinking of getting an amd 3700 but ya pentiums do suck a bit :P lol but they can handle quite good for some games
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We primarily use dual xeons from Dell, when they do their 'free 2nd CPU' offers, you really have nothing to loose
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nice i currently have one which is one of the first boxes i got dual xeon 3.2ghz, with 2048mb ram was handy when i started up dave at ukservers made it for me and done a good rent to own deal on it
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To compare Athlon64 and Opteron... Athlon is really a desktop processor and generally has 512k of chip cache, Opteron is really a server processor and generally has 1meg of chip cache.. so generally better performance.
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opterons i noticed multiplayuk use them to host there battlefield 2 ranked servers i think on opteron 246's or something but surely opterons arnt as good if they dont have a decent connection to match seeing the amount of servers you could get on them?
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In most instances, you cant fit 'that' many game servers on even dual xeon / opteron boxes anymore purely because CPU usage of game servers being so high!
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yeh i dont know if any of you ran operation flashpoint servers but they were serious cpu eaters
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Im looking at getting a Dual x Dual Core Opteron w/4Gb DDR to run some personal g/servers on in the NL. Seams to have plenty of kick, but ill let you know in a few weeks.
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The AMD Athlon 64 3800+ seem to have a slight edge over the rest of the AMD 64 range... might be worth looking at.
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what would an amd athlon 3800+ be equal to if it was an opteron?
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150/250 if you are comparing clock speed - but I don't know if clock speed comparison between those architectures is a valid comparison.

Anyhow the 3800+ only has 512KB of L2 cache compared to 1MB on the Opteron - and on some processors the cache can make much more difference than clock speed.

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BF2 really does benefit from 64-bit processing. In tests a dual opteron 248 provides double the player slots of a dual 2.8 GHz Xeon. Dual 252 and Dual 275 is the way forward for games; we haven't bought a xeon in some time now
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