[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

[Darth BoBo]

Last week, I purchased:
AMD 2700+ and ASUS A7N8X-DLX   : $358 shipped (www.mwave.com)
1 Gb Corsair PC3200 (DDR 400)   : $235 shipped (www.tigerdirect.com)

Put those two items in a case with a harddrive/CD and you have a working 
system. The ASUS is an nForce board with 2 nic's (Nvidia and 3Com), 
audio, video, 6 or 8 USB 2.0, firewire, SATA/IDE, etc... (specs: 
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/a19041.html)
Adding my 9800 Pro was another $400 because I couldn't wait for it to be 
shipped,  but even then, yer not much more than $900US, and you could 
use PC2700 or trim the cpu back to save some bucks.

Rick

Tristan Gulyas 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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