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At this point I dont really want to invest in any more AMD hardware, especially as
most of the boards for the duals operate on the same chipset afaik. With the p4's we
have an asus board running with the springdale chipset, and also a gigabyte with an
sis chipset and they both run more player slots.
Neil.
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This simple get the best AMD board and the best P4 board... get Corsair Ram
and test... if ya don't you lose.
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Hiya,
I donât want to start a big flame, but im just really puzzled, this has been
niggling away for the last few weeks and I thought id see if anyone else has
any thoughts or experiences that may help.
Basically the servers in question are these:
3x dual amd mp 2400's, 1.5gb ram.
3x p4's 1gb ram, 3ghz, 2.8ghz and a 2.67ghz.
The p4 singles seem to be running circles around the duals, ive performed
several tests getting the boxes as full as possible.
Dual mp 2400: 52 players, spread across 4 servers. 12man, 20man, 12man,
18man.
The 20man and 18man are running metamod 1.17 and amx 0.9.7, and vac. The
other 2 servers are just running vac.
With this setup the cpu load is at 100% constant.
P4 3Ghz: 35players, spread across 2 servers. 14man, 20man, 12man.
The 20man is full running metamod 1.17 and clanmod 1.82b1 and vac. The other
2 servers are running metamod 1.17 and amx 0.9.7, and vac
With this setup the cpu load is at 30-42%
All servers were running the same map. As a cross reference the server on
the p4 (20man) was using 20-25%. The 20man on the AMD dual was using 40-45%
of total system cpu.
I need to do further testing on this to get more extensive figures, but from
early investigations despite having 2 cpu's each clocked at 2ghz (from
memory), against a 3ghz single chip its being run circles around. IF the p4
figure are to go by, if I was happy with 100% cpu load, then I could have
70-80 players running off this box to get the same cpu useage as 52players
on the dual!
Now, the other duals are all having a similar story, the p4's are doing
exceptionally well, even the 2.67 seems to be able to support more players
than the dual.
What do the rest of you think ?
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