sArAkUzZa Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hi guys, I am assembling dedicated servers and I am looking for your opinion and advices. This is what I got for now Processor: Intel Xeon E5620 Memory: 24GB Unbuffered 1333mhz DDR3 Motherboard: Supermicro "X8DTL-3" 250Gb + 500Gb HDDs (looking for your advice on which one to choose) Case:Supermicro "6016T-6F" Thinking about choosing X8DT6-F motherboard instead. Server will be used for hosting CoD series games, so RAM exhausting, not CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Are you looking for advice on which size of hard drive to use or are they different specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 both sizes are ok at my opinion, one for OS and other for userfiles What I need to watch out with HDDs? Looking for specific model/brand also. If not problem comment on other parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi147 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 For the CPU check out the intel i7 2600K will out perform the xeon I assume And they are very cost effective The boards are also in the range of 100-120$ I have ordered them and will be posting a review soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Can you recommend motherboard for i7? Also this motherboard has 2 cpu sockets so I can later easily upgrade cpu power if needed for reasonable price This xeons have 12mb l3 cache I am ready to hear more advices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi147 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I would suggest that rather than building 1 monster machine you make 2-3 decent machines If your 1 machine crashes then all servers are down the 2600K i7 is a rocking CPU and overclockable and they aer almost at par with i7 980x extreme CPU but 1/3rd the price Compatible motherboard i suggest any h67 or p67 board would be good you need to see the specs of mobo i dont have much idea about it And if you have the budget get an SSD as your OS drive where you load the page files from 2x500GB raid0 for your game files Note that the above is going to be overkill and you wont even notice any difference except maps loading slightly faster, but it might help in marketing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 My current server is online for about 35 days (ecc ram) And only time I restarted it was maintenance This is not gonna be master server, only remote. Setting up remote can be done in about 2hrs Another issue is that Colo over here is pretty expensive, about 150$monthly, no matter how much W(amps) it consumes. Anyway I could easily choose good i7 + 24gigs of ram and that should be ok. SSD is really not necesary coz difference is unoticable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi147 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 You should check pricing for BW in India you'll be surprised You wont go much wrong with i7s i suppose especially not the 2600K I would not recommend going for i7 950 or higher simply because at the same price you can get a 2600k which is atleast 1.5 times better in performance and ull be able to hold a few more game servers on it I currently have dual e5410 + 16gb ram and 3 AMD 1090Ts which i will be changing to 2600ks soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 2600k is same price as e5620, so is it really better for game hosting? I mean 1ghz higher frequency is not a small difference but anyway...xeons are server cpus. Also I can not find benchmarks on net. I would like to hear other opinions also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi147 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJK2408 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Building serveral machines would be wrong, as colocation costs would be more, i would build 2-3 beasty machines with failover hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Processor: Intel Xeon E5620 Memory: 24GB Unbuffered 1333mhz DDR3 Motherboard: Supermicro "X8DTL-3" 250Gb + 500Gb HDDs (looking for your advice on which one to choose) Case:Supermicro "6016T-6F" This is a good setup and you will have the option of adding another CPU if it becomes necessary. We use smaller 150Gb 15000 RPM Rapter drives for the operating systems and either a 500Gb or 1TB 7200 RPM hards drive for the game installs. As for the Case we like to use cases with Hot Swap drive bays. If the Data Center charges by the $150 for a 1U and doesn't care about power consumption I would stuff as much into a 1U case as I could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 i72600k looks really good on benchmark, it is 2x better than e5620 So now I wonder is it better to get one 5620 and later add another or use only one in start and that is it. On my current e5620 with HT i have about 150players online and cpu is not going over 7-8% which is excellent. @sickpuppy what do you think, adding one 2600k (2x "better") or one E5260. (with possible upgrade later) Combination with 2600k would be about 150$ cheaper than second solution. I am going for monster machine because of colo costs and dont forget that I need to get that server to DC, so that is also cost. @ajk do you suggest using raid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Raid is unnecessary for game servers. striping a drive will reduce seek time but for a game server this does not result in overall game performance. If you use a dual CPU mother board it gives you the option of updating the server if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi147 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 @sArAkUzZa - Since youre running the COD series I think you'll never need more cpu than you have, but will need more RAM. In this case either the 5620 or the 2600K would be more than enough for you. If you can wait a few days then by next week I will give you a comparison between E5410, AMD 1090T and i7 2600k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Problem is that 2600k do not have proper MBs for servers. So I picked up this configuration Proc: Core i7 950 MB:: x8sti-f 2x500GB sata 24 GB RAM (6x4GB) Supermicro 813M series chasis I think this will be good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proclan Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Problem is that 2600k do not have proper MBs for servers. So I picked up this configuration Proc: Core i7 950 MB:: x8sti-f 2x500GB sata 24 GB RAM (6x4GB) Supermicro 813M series chasis I think this will be good one That is always a problem when you compare desktop cpu's to server grade hardware. You have to look at your overall plan while the server grade hardware is more costly your options are far more open for upgrades, board compatibility, cases etc. If your looking at building a monster machine take a look at some of the 4 socket boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Yes, that is really issue. Since I will be hosting CoDs there is no need for extra CPU power (maybe one CSS server will be hosted) Bottleneck is memory. I was looking to build dual quads (+HT) but most of power would just sit there unusued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi147 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 You wont go wrong We just changed our server from AMD 1090T to i7950 and trust me it is far far better than amd Amd used to go to about 80-90% cpu where as with intel i am at 20-25% cpu during peak hours And we run a lot of HL1/HL2 based servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Yes, that is really issue. Since I will be hosting CoDs there is no need for extra CPU power (maybe one CSS server will be hosted) Bottleneck is memory. I was looking to build dual quads (+HT) but most of power would just sit there unusued It is always better to have more power than you need, than to need more power than you have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 I do not have more money than I need therefore I can not get more power than I need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peace Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 What is your budget? Are you going to host game servers? If yes than what game types? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sArAkUzZa Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 I mentioned all of this in past posts ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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