What would you suggest?

[Zaian]

Hi, I am thinking about buying a Dell poweredge 840 and I am uncertain on what I should choose.

What's included, if not customized:

a Pentium® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4600 at 2.4GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB

1GB RAM, DDR2, 667MHz

250GB, SATA, 3.5-inch, 7.200 rpm Hard Drive

And some other things.

Available upgrades:

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X3220/X3230, 2x4MB Cache, 2.4GHz/2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB

Intel® Core 2 Duo® E4700, 2.6GHz, 2MB Cache, 800MHz FSB

Up to 8GB RAM, DDR2, 667MHz

And some other stuff (like a better hard driver etc.).

What I want to do is running up to 5 game servers as a start, perhaps one or two left 4 dead servers for my Steam group and the rest I don't know.

Would 2-4GB RAM, dual core be able to handle this, or would it require quad and more RAM?
And also what would be the best OS to run, Linux or Windows?

Sorry for it being my first post.

[stronius]

Please elaborate..
How many slots will each server contain, and private or public?

By the sounds of it, an E4600 with 1gb of RAM will most definitely NOT handle this.

[dualcore1289]

The E4600 can handle 2 8 slot L4D servers, and roughly 40 100tickrate slots in CSS

[Zaian]

stronius Wrote:Please elaborate..
How many slots will each server contain, and private or public?

By the sounds of it, an E4600 with 1gb of RAM will most definitely NOT handle this.

Well, it would be a steam group server... Probably private, and perhaps that the other one would be public. I don't know perhaps one 24 slots server (I don't know if it is possible but I saw as a choosable option for the l4d dedicated server)?
What would two 24 slots l4d servers require (if it is possible to create 24 slots)?
I didn't say that I would go with the E4600 and 1GB RAM, I would probably choose (as I wrote before) between 2-4GB and perhaps quad.

[dualcore1289]

Oh no doubt a quad is better, but you wont use up 4 gb, you will be fine with 2gb.

[Zaian]

dualcore1289 Wrote:Oh no doubt a quad is better, but you wont use up 4 gb, you will be fine with 2gb.

Hm, okay. Does it make a difference which OS I run?

[dualcore1289]

well that depend on what you prefer to run. But no it wont make much of a difference, if any.

[Beaverbeliever]

Windows is familiar to most, and Linux is free. Take your pick, but personally I choose Windows for my OS.

[Mooga]

If you know windows, choose Windows (2k3 if possible). If you know Linux, go with Linux.

Unless you're cut-throat about getting 1000+ FPS on the server, there's really no main difference. There have been a few times where the Windows updates didn't work as quickly as the Linux updates... but this is VERY rare!

[dualcore1289]

Windows FTW!!!!!

[Zaian]

Hm... Is learning linux hard?
I have thought about learning linux, I don't know if this is a good moment to start?

[realchamp]

No, it's quite easy. I made a server on Linux in 5 minutes, and it was FIRST time ever I used Linux . Just follow the guide at the start page, or here: http://www.srcds.com/db/engine.php?subaction=showfull&id=1098643920&archive=

[Mooga]

If you have never used a *nix command prompt, it's not easy.