[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

[NINjak]

Hello guys,

The AMD Athlon is the better platform to host multiplayer games.
His strong FPU is the (real) reason to choose for the Athlon instead of the
P4/XEON !

Go for dual systems if you have the money, you can host more (heavy)
gameservers on 1 dual system, the cpu with the less load will handle the
i/o transactions.

You can host more gameservers on one dual systeem then on 2 separate
systems :)

Cya NINjak

At 12:29 PM 5/12/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>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/
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