[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

[Chad Frerer]

Athlon instead of the
> P4/XEON !

Athlon and p4's can't be compaired to a xeon.



----- Original Message -----
From: "NINjak" <ninjak at ss-nl.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 2:59 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?


> 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/
> >"We are the music makers..and we are the dreamers of the dream"
> > --Willy Wonka
> >
> >
>