Buying new server needs input on the hardware

[lhffan]

At the moment i have an server running pretty fine as match server but i need more power in the box since some plugins requires so much power.

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ASUS P6T SE X58 S-1366  
CHIEFTEC WH-01B-B-OP  
CORSAIR HX 620W  
DIMM DDR3 HYPERX 12GB 2000MHZ DDR3 NON-ECC CL9  
INTEL CORE I7 975 EXTREME 3.33GHZ 8MB S-1366  
NOCTUA NF-B9 SILENT CASE FAN 92MM x 2
NOCTUA NF-P12-1300 SILENT CASE FAN 120MM

Have a couple of questions to you gurus.
Is the power of Corsair 620W powersupply enough?
Speed of memory does it affect server performance?
How many slots can this box run, TFT2?
Should i wait for gulftown 6 qore cpu?

[lol554]

The PSU is enough

I have a Corsair VX450 that runs a Phenom II 965 server.

I wouldnt go for Core i7, choose Xeon E5500-series instead

[lhffan]

(02-05-2010, 10:48 PM)lol554 Wrote:  The PSU is enough

I have a Corsair VX450 that runs a Phenom II 965 server.

I wouldnt go for Core i7, choose Xeon E5500-series instead

Looking at those to... but will wait until march and se what price i7 980x will cost

[chiman2]

I'm actually looking to buy new hardware too. http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp?ID=856143 does that look any good?

[lol554]

Which type of case are you going to place the hardware in? rack?

[lhffan]

INTEL CORE I7 975 EXTREME 3.33GHZ + 64bits linux debian lenny no rt patch. +12gb memory


How many tft2 slots 66 tic

or

How many dods slots 66 tic

or

How many dods slots 100 tic

[lol554]

maybe 200 slots totally (for dods 100 tick)

[loopyman]

350Watt server PSU is enough to power an i7...

[Mooga]

Generally people say you can do 1 large (24+ Slots) TF2 server per core. I would think with that extra power you can also run at least 1 smaller non-TF2 server per core. Since the i7s have 4 cores, about 4 large TF2 servers and some change. HT takes a little pressure off, but no major differences as far as I know.

The big issues with all those servers if that the server NEEDS to be in a data center to support that much traffic.

[lhffan]

(02-07-2010, 01:43 PM)Mooga Wrote:  The big issues with all those servers if that the server NEEDS to be in a data center to support that much traffic.

You are talking about the connection speed and bandwidth i guess. I have fiber 100/100 at home so il think that will do the trick pretty ok.

Then about the memory. Should i put in 12GB or is less ok. And also the memory speed...?

[lol554]

(02-07-2010, 01:43 PM)Mooga Wrote:  The big issues with all those servers if that the server NEEDS to be in a data center to support that much traffic.

Fiber-connections are getting more popular, and people are getting around 10/10 mbit speed, which is excellent for handling that traffic, but it's still best to have it in a datacenter, because the connection is much more professional

[lhffan]

I have 95/95 almost all the time

How about my question of the ram and it´s speed?

[Mooga]

Generally ram is not very important. 12GB of ram is fine. That's 3GB per core. You should be more then fine. People often go with faster HDDs before they worry about ram.

[lol554]

Yes go for 7200, 10000 or 15000RPM hard drives (or SSD)

[lhffan]

Im thinking about using raid 0 2x 640gb sata of some sort. If i canot use my scsi disks in my old box


I have also been thinking about an ssd disk for my box. Should i use it for my /srcds install or server root?