[Speed!]

Originally Posted by YamiKaitou Are they going to have a bunch of downloadable content? Memory limits per OS edition can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx Also, the "PC" you are wanting shouldn't be a PC, it should be a Server. Don't confuse the term PC with Server as they are completely different. Also, I would always recommend a hardware level RAID setting for servers.

heh yes I don't think this "PC" will be that "Personal" since thousands people will connect to it LOL


RAID would be right, but I don't think that we are even getting through 30GB of storage, since I think that per HLDS, you use ~1GB... I don't think the storage is much important in a server running just HLDS...

btw, I haven't been aswered yet, an q6600 would be right for that server amounts? and what mother should I use, because as they said, the term "SLI" doesn't fit well in a server... I'm not having much money (actually, where I live, electronic is really expensive) I'm not able to buy a Xeon, I think a core 2 quad should be fine though.

In fact, what I need to know is:
A q6600 would be fine? What about a q6700? No difference? Should I buy a 45nm one?

What power supply should I use for this server?

What motherboard fits with this core 2 quad for a server?

Thanks to all who have answered. +karma btw to all

[YamiKaitou]

Now, a question that has been bugging me. Why are you building your own server? Why not purchase one from Dell, HP, Sun, or IBM?

[P4rD0nM3]

Maybe he just wants to co-locate and then get hte server back when he's out of money or something.

[YamiKaitou]

Originally Posted by P4rD0nM3 Maybe he just wants to co-locate and then get hte server back when he's out of money or something.

That doesn't answer my question at all. Even if you purchase a server from a major vendor, you can still colo it as long as you get it to the datacenter.

[P4rD0nM3]

At the least possible cost. I do suggest that he just buy a ready-to-deploy server.

[AntiBots]

If you want more ram need 64 bit. And dont work very well with hlds xD

[YamiKaitou]

Originally Posted by AntiBots If you want more ram need 64 bit.

That is actually false. Look at the link I posted about the memory limits for Windows. You can clearly see that there is 32bit versions that do not limit it at 4GB (2008 Enterprise/Datacenter both limit to 64GB). Unless you enable PAE mode for these, you will still be limited to 4GB (as that page states)

[Speed!]

Dell servers are far to expensive here in my country :\
But a PC as I mentioned is much more accessible

[AntiBots]

Originally Posted by YamiKaitou That is actually false. Look at the link I posted about the memory limits for Windows. You can clearly see that there is 32bit versions that do not limit it at 4GB (2008 Enterprise/Datacenter both limit to 64GB). Unless you enable PAE mode for these, you will still be limited to 4GB (as that page states)

Wow. 64 bit work with 2 TB of ram. That is very crazy

[Styles]

Those specs wont be good enough, I would get the cheaper new i7 processor... and like at least 8 gigs of ram. Then get 2 8600 nvidias SLI bridge them... haha