02-10-2010, 12:53 PM
(02-08-2010, 07:37 PM)lol554 Wrote:(02-08-2010, 06:49 PM)BehaartesEtwas Wrote: One hard drive will be enough, if you make some backup e.g. to your home pc. The hard drive speed is not critical, it will only slightly reduce map change times. I would recommend one single standard SATA drive (size doesn't really matter, they are all big enough).
If you want to run 4 servers, I would recommend at least 2, better 4 cores. Don't take AMD cpus, they are not so good for game servers. If the budget allows it, I would recommend an i5 750.
If you don't run much else, 2 GB of RAM will be enough.
AMD CPU's are excellent for gamehosting. Why should Intel CPU's be better than AMD?
AMD generally has slower bus speeds and lower cache sizes than Intel, game servers require more of both.
AMD generally fails at performing multiple tasks, sure, you may be able to play Grand Theft Auto IV on the latest Phenom, but how it will perform when you run 4 full TF2 servers on the latest Nehalem based processor?