Intel or AMD?

[alberto0o]

Hi,
I dont know what is best:
-Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHZ
or
-AMD64 Athlon 3800+ DualCore

Other config:
- 2048MB DDR2 Kingston
- 250GB SATA2

And port of 10Mbit or 100mbit?

SUSE 10 its good for srcds servers? I have never used linux

How mani servers could i run with this machine?

[Bonsaihero]

I would choose Intel, well because i'm a Intel Fanboy and i like Intel machines best, they are more cooler(not as hot as AMD, which means less power and less needing for cooling)

Choose 100mbit As more speed, as more slots

[Muppet]

Might be a good idea for you to start of with some sort of debian based distro. Easier for beginners to linux

With the Intel 1.86ghz - you should be able to get 4 x 16 players 100ticks (i can) and still have some CPU to spare.

[jesper]

I'd go with the C2D. I have 2 x E4300 1,8Ghz both clocked to 3Ghz, absolutly stable.
This cpu is a OC monster.

[insomniac]

alberto0o Wrote:SUSE 10 its good for srcds servers? I have never used linux

openSuSe 10.2 runs srcds just fine....depending on your !nix experience.....install 10.2 w/o the gui....

if you have never used linux before.....this will be a great learning experience..you probably want to a front-end..
Kde is resembling windows these days <quivers and dryheaves>

[Drocona]

At the moment core 2 duo is the way to go in my opinion (got 2x E6600 2.4GHz over here, running around 100 slots mixed 100 and 66 tick)