Building a Server

[MikeHof]

I'm throwing around the idea of building a server to host Delta Force Land Warrior games. What would I need to do this???

Mike

[GroundZero3]

plenty of ram. 256mb or more. fast processor (1.2 ghz athlon) and mb to support it (asus). a really nice internet connection. i prefer a T3 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif If the game supports it Linux or win2k if not supported by linux. oh yeah and make sure you keep that case cool!

Jason

[This message has been edited by GroundZero3 (edited 05-12-2001).]

[MikeHof]

So the processor is more important than the hard drive?? I was curious about that. I have adsl connection runs at 35 kbs. Think that is fast enough? Thanks for the info though.

[GroundZero3]

oh yeah forgot about the hard dirve. i would get a 7200 rpm. i think that a processor is more important than the hard drive becasue the processor will be dealing with the load of people on it

Jason

[NDC]

But the hard disk will be important as well, since data will be sent to the client side.... I don't know how many people will be hitting you server, but I would recommend a SCSI hard disk since it has "Command-tag queuing".

[ooops]

Your connection is very important ..... you can have the fastest CPU and massive amounts of RAM , but will be useless if it can't handle the traffic....

[ooops]

on the equipment side, as cheap as everything is these days , use a dual processor set-up with RAID and lots of that inexpensive RAM .......