[bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?

[James Gurney]

Ah, 1800.. Not 2800 then.. Makes more sense now :)

Rowan Smith wrote:

> James,
>
> The general feeling ive had when trying to run 24+ player servers is
> laggyness on anything around/below athlon xp 1800. I have heard reports
> of it running nicer on the t bred 2200+'s or above, but personally
> havent used a 2200 yet, so it may run that much better...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Gurney [mailto:james at globalmegacorp.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:13 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] P4 or Athlon for server platform?
>
>
> Rowan Smith wrote:
>
> >but on 100mbit a dedicated linux box with an
> >xp2800 will lag a bit with 24 or more players..so might be something
> >worth thinking about
>
>
> Er, are you sure about those numbers? The servers run by Nvidia are XP
> 2600 machines, with the nForce 2 chipset, and they happily support 64
> players without any particular lag.