How many servers can this dedi hold?

[Mike]

Well, with a 980X (hexa?) you could possibly host 5 - 10 servers. 20 slots i guess.

[jmomo]

Arg... I thought I posted this already. I guess not.

Atom processors are bad for gaming. Good for light/middle-weight web servers. Don't even consider any server based on an Atom processor.

Here's what the resource requirements are of a couple of TF2 servers that I help manage. The OS is Linux

The CPU is an Athlon x6 1055T CPU with 4GB of PC800 DRR2 RAM on an old desktop board.

Each 24/32-player TF2 server needs it's own core. At full load time, the CPU can peak up to 80% usage, but averages maybe 40%. The srcds binary is unthreaded and unoptimized for current CPUs.

Bandwidth needed is about 1Mbps inbound and 4Mbps outbound per 24/32-player server.

Our heavily modified server with sourcemod and other stuff needs about 450MB of RAM. Vanilla needs 250MB, I think.

Disk drives really don't matter, but the install takes up about 6GB and more if you want logs and demos locally.

[CentralFrag]

Jmomo is basically pretty close. Just check out the CPU Benchmark scores and go for as high of a score as you can. You really dont have to worry about RAM because any machine you buy now a days should have plenty of RAM.

[lol554]

Its difficult to say - depends on plugins/players and such.. But i would recommend Sandy Bridge instead.