AMD or INTEL ?

[whassup]

Help me decide please!! I'm about to get a PC to make it as a dedicated game server.. I need suggestions pleaseeeee. So far my rough guide is a fast cpu, unknown motherboard, cheap video card, IBM HD, 256MB RAM and 3com nic. But i'm still unsure which cpu+motherboard to get.. so help me out please someone/anyone heheheh thanx thanx..

 

[FordLorider]

AMD, that way it would let you get into the DDR products sooner, .

 

[whassup]

I'm so happy!! someone actually replied my post!! hehehehe
okok since you say AMD I will get AMD, but when will the manufacturer comes out with the latest AMD chipset or isit out already ? hmmmm AMD cpu is cheaper but motherboard seems more expensive hmmmmm....

THANX ANYWAY!!!!! i'm so happy hehehhee

 

[Mem]

Motherboard for stability easy,MSI K7T PRO board(SocketA for Duron & Thunderbird).Go with a 800 or 900 Thunderbird.

 

[Eli]

Definately Socket-A AMD. To go Intel would be an absolutely pointless, dead end route.



The average price of Socket-A boards on Pricewatch is 109$, hardly terribly expensive. i815 boards start at 140.

 

[AdamK47]

AMTEL all the way!

 

[dawks]

You'll always get a reply here! Welcome!

AMD is the way to go!

BTW, what game(s) are you serving? Whats the connection?

 

[whassup]

Oh my gawd!! I'm getting more then 1 replies hehehe i'm so overjoyyed cause the last post I made about this subject nobody replied me Anyway thanx again for the suggestions. I will be hosting either Half-Life Counterstrike or Quake3 Arena, but it's only for LAN connections only. ermmm whats AMTEL ?

 

[AMB]

I think that you will get more than a 100 replies on this, I think

I would defintly go with AMD.

MY recommendation at the moment, would be the Abit KT7 + T-BIrd 900

 

[Digobick]

<< ermmm whats AMTEL? >>

A joke.

 

[Eli]

Abit K7T is good. 134$+s/h on Pricewatch.
The MSI K7T Pro, which is the board Anand used for his servers, is only 111$+s/h.


Thunderbird 800 is 170$+s/h.

So for a ~300$ you could have a Very nice setup. Add a stick of 128mb Muskin High Quality PC133 2-2-2 Certified Athlon RAM for 165$+s/h, and you've got yourself a helluva nice system.

 

[Vegito]

I would also recommend the AMD DDR but the bad thing is that DDR MB won't ship by ??? either october or december. Seeing that the alpha/beta/pre market version puts out good result with cheap prices compared with rambus, hell I&quot;ll do AMD.

 

[Dufusyte]

For a game server, stability is more important than (over-clocked) speed. The MSI K7T Pro is the most stable, and an 800 mhz Thunderbird will be plenty fast enough to host every game out there today. You'd have a perfectly solid server with those components.

 

[SCUBA]

come on whassup u have started a war on our furom now
never ask AMD or intel coz u wont get no answer and ull get about a 100 posts talking about AMD is better than intel and intel is better than amd
BTW get an intel if it was less than a 1 gig
but if it was a gig get AMD

 

[Howard]

SCUBA, what's your reasoning? AMD Thunderbirds are less expensive than Coppermines throughout the entire range. Why only buy AMD 1GHz processors.

The K7T Pro is definitely a stable board, great for servers. However, it does not support DDR SDRAM (no boards do) so you'll have to buy another board if you want DDR SDRAM support. However, the Thunderbird is supposed to work in a DDR board.

 

[Syborg1211]

ok, here is an intel vote. What is this? like 50 to 1 here. Get a p3 700 mhz and overclock that sucker. It should be able to hit around a ghz easy. Although my processor was a so called &quot;dud&quot;, it still kicks some butt. Get a P3V4X for around a 100 bucks plus a 190 dollar 700e and you got one fine system going on.

 

[RagingGuardian]

Syborg it's for a dedicated server, not boasting rights. I'd suggest AMD since it's cheaper.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

I would suggest AMD for its future upgradability as opposed to Intel.

 

[Ausm]

I am thinking about going the AMD route myself on my next system...looks like there is ALOT more longevity with going with that CPU/mobo combination...


Ausm

 

[dawks]

Overclocking servers isnt the best idea. Besides, a PII450 can handle 32 players easy.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

Cyrix - no question about it!

 

[Zorba]

Another vote for AMD. All my reasons have been posted by others .

 

[AdamK47]

Intel.... because they have neato CPUs.

 

[glenn1]

Both Intel and AMD are fine... it's like asking whether a Ford or GM is the better car. I've used both with great results over the years, and would be perfectly happy with either set-up right now.

Performance-wise, there is little to no appreciable difference between the T-bird and P3... some benchmarks favor the T-bird, some the P3. The duron vs. celeron, though, is another story entirely... the Duron absolutely smokes the Celeron. And it's not even close. And both AMD processors are cheaper than their Intel counterparts.

In my opinion, the Duron paired with the MSI K7T Pro and Mushkin sdram is the absolute, far and away best value per dollar solution out there right now. I have the K7T board, and it is absolutely indestructible. Most stable board i have ever used in my life, and i have prior experiences using Asus, Abit, Tyan, Gigabyte, you name it. I highly recommend it.

 

[sd]

Good points glenn1