[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

[Rowan Smith]

So does your fucking spelling you twit

-----Original Message-----
From: David Huysmans [mailto:fa407122 at skynet.be] 
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 7:04 PM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?


compare a xceon agaisnt a opteron and look at the diffrence 64 for game
srvert is perfect have an alpha satiotn as gfame server and ah hp 9000
class D server that works perfect and sorry to say but xeon suck realy
even intel sucks lateley
----- Original Message -----
From: "NINjak" <ninjak at ss-nl.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?


> >> Athlon instead of the
> >>
> >>>P4/XEON !
> >>
> >>
> >> Athlon and p4's can't be compaired to a xeon.
> >
> >Additionally, I cannot second this opinion. Our 2.6 GHz Xeons perform

> >much, much better than their Athlon MP counterparts and can take more

> >game servers per box.
>
> The experience of a friend of mine is the other way around a dual 2 
> Ghz XEON system could not handle the same number of CS servers that 
> where on
an
> AMD Athlon MP 1900+ system ! After the switch (MP<>XEON) people (clan
> servers) where complaining about extreme lag, when the switch was 
> undone everything was fine (again) !
>
>