[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

[David Huysmans]

use a dual optheron that has to give more capacity then only 1gb of ram and
you whont have to mutch prob best azsk 1.7  or 2.0 optheon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Taylor - Brainless" <ryan at sleepywombat.org>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?


> i get away with 30 players on a athlong 2400+ with 256meg ram on windows
> with me playing so i dunno what ur on about
>
> but those systems would handle anything u wanna do including multiple
server
>
> at the moment i have a 1.4ghz thunderbird with 256 meg ram for my linux
ded
> and it handles 30 without a sweat as well
>
> yours brainless
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tristan Gulyas" <zardoz at shafted.com.au>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:29 PM
> Subject: [bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?
>
>
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > we're about to purchase some server gear for our Melbourne-based LAN
> gaming
> > events (~300-400 players) and we're trying to decide between the Athlon
or
> > P4 platforms.  I'm fairly set on an Athlon 2500+ on an nForce2 board
with
> > either 512MB or 1GB RAM, however, we're also considering some of the
lower
> > end P4 offerings.
> >
> > We can't really spend much more than AU$900 on each machine so we're on
a
> > bit of a budget, although if the P4 offers *that much more* performance,
> > then we might be able to strech it a tad.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > ---
> > Tristan Gulyas
> > zardoz at shafted.com.au
> > http://zardoz.hotblack.net/
> > "We are the music makers..and we are the dreamers of the dream"
> >  --Willy Wonka
> >
>
>