On this intel P4 prescott with 1Mb of Cache you can Run 6 Server with 12 players on each without problems
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Garner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:03 PM Subject: [hlds_linux] AMD or Intel? > Hi people, > > It's that old war again and I need to choose sides. :) > > We are going to be building a bunch of 1U servers. For roughly the same > price I have a choice between: > > AMD Athlon XP 3200 > or > Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Prescott socket 478 > > Both with 2x512MB dual channel DDR400, SATA, etc. > > We've always built dual-CPU machines in the past but it seems the Athlon > MP CPUs are lagging behind the XP's technologically (lower GHz, lower > FSB) and Athlon64/Opteron/Xeon are too expensive, so single-CPU seems to > be the way to go. I don't think we could get duals into a 1U form factor > either due to maximum 250W PSU on the chassis we will be using. > > Anyway, I am just wondering if anybody has made any side by side > performance comparisons lately for HLDS on these CPU platforms. What's > your pick? > > cheers > > -Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
