[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

Chad Frerer chad at qpalzm.com
Mon May 12 06:37:46 EDT 2003


while we are comparing apples and oranges...
lets think of two other things different that we can compare

how bout a jet and a ten speed bike

Opt- 64/32 bit
Xeon- 32bit....

Please no more spam

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Huysmans" <fa407122 at skynet.be>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:03 AM
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) !
> >
> >
>




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