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Building a gaming server!

Ask Jator about his or Lord Demos. You will find them in distributed computing forum(kinda akin to what you want to do).
 
Know how many players you will be able to support
shouldn't need to much speed, Celeron 500 w/128-256MB of Memory.... and stupid HD.. Linux would be best.
If your running bots i think that would put a big load on system and you'd need faster. But i think Celeron 500 should be enough for the connection you probably got, in Q3A im pretty sure it could hold at least 24, mabe 32 players under linux; You'd have to have like 1.5/1.5MB DSL to support 32 players 😉. Not sure about how much Q3 actualy uses conpaired to CS (my game). i don't think it works too good overclocking in linux because it uses the CPU so much better then windows it heats it up more.

I don't know if you want to go excesive and have it waste alot of potential CPU power and money, or just go the cheap way and get what you need right now... I think Celeron 500 should be more then enough as to what your connection is.
But it shouldn't cost you too much, Celeron 500 is pretty cheap, mabe get a dual MB so you can add another one if you needed more power (For what ever reason), 128MB should be fine, might want to go with 256MB, again im not sure how much resorces Q3A really takes up. HD just a cheap 4GB drive for like 40$ or something =-) Once its started it never really does anything with the HD anyway, mabe write logs but thats about it. Cheap S3 Video card or something, mabe no monitor, I never use my linux box's monitor, only have one because i already had the monitor laying around.. Just Telnet/SSH into it.

Good luck
 
Ok seeing that i can get an athlon 550 for cheap, that might be a good idea but what about different versions of linux. There are so many of em i wonder which one is the most simple to run.
 
you shouldn't at all build a gaming server off a cable or dsl connection......but if you do, keep it to a max of 4-8 players or something. and gets LOTS of RAM.
 
im with prodigy, on that kind of connection get 4-8 players max, my freind runs a UT and Q3 server on his cable connection, with a max of 8 players, if you go to 12 it lags(the connection not the computer, computer is only using 40-50% resources with 12 players but connection cant take it). His server is a PPRo 200 with a 2GB HD (Old slow ass Quantum Bigfoot 🙂 and its loaded with 256MB RAM (most important part). So you should be able to get one for around 600. Oh and its got a cirrus logic 1MB video card. It also runs proxy for his home network. It is running NT 4 Server. BTW the PPRO is the 512KB cache version.
 
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