Quad Opterons system as a Gaming Server

[SwiftWind]

So I was a lan party this weekend....

There was a rep for AMD there, and he brought along with him a quad opteron server. It was running 10 instances of counter-strike:source server.

16% cpu usage.

*drool*


EDIT: it was quad opterons and not a quad core opteron server. They were Opteron 280's

My apologies for the mix up.

 

[Kromis]

Where was the LAN party??!?!?

 

[SwiftWind]

Kansas City, sponsored by Red Bull.

This was the main organization running the event, but other organizations were involved in helping as well.

 

[Ayah]

It's more network intense than CPU intensive..

 

[SwiftWind]

Perhaps. I was told by the network admin that the majority of our network traffic out to the internet were multiple GBs of steam related packets.

 

[hardwareking]

are those socket F opterons he bought?
So basically 2 x dual core opterons.Neat.

 

[Lonyo]

Now get him to try a more CPU intensive game.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

just goes to shoe how useless it was to host CS:S on a quad core opteron.

 

[bigtm135]

i have a quadcore opteron aswell o.o i tried hosting a css server too and yeah the cpu usage is minimal even with 16~20 users on, it starts going up after 28 ish tho

dual opteron 275's
4gb corsair twinx 1024's ecc registered
2x raptor 74gb

on a tyan 2775 i think >< its been a while since i played with it tho once i colocated the thing i havent really done much to it lol