I was unable to get 24 players without lag running on a Celeron 2GHz with 512MB DDR on a Gigabyte motherboard about a year and a bit ago (HLDS_L not SRCDS), ended up buying another machine and using the Celeron as a webserver instead.
IMO I'd avoid Celeron's for gameservers due to their tiny wee caches and just go for a P4/AMD XP/64 instead.
-Scott
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Here are the specs...
Dell Poweredge Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz Processor 400 MHz Front Side Bus 128K Cache 512mb ECC SDRAM Upgradeable to 2GB 2x40GB IDE HDD Verio Tier 1 Network
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ook Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] celeron questions
The only way to find out for sure is to try it and see. I have a Celeron 2.66 GHz on one of my desks, and it's a piece of crap. The biggest problem with it is it's one of those micro form factor boards that was designed to be small and cheap, not fast. It's not so much the fault of the Celeron, but the crap mother board it's on.
A 2GHz celeron on a good quality motherboard will scream. Ultimately, the only way to tell is to load up the server with 32 players and see how much cpu is being consumed. You may find it is perfectly acceptable after all.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Parkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:06 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] celeron questions
I must admit I only ran it for a couple of hours, none of the gamers complained about lag or anything..
But to be honest I would never recommend using one full time..
Simon
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