Do you need a son? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Cumming Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlds] AMD vs Intel.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Hiya, I don't want to start a big flame, but im just really puzzled, this has been niggling away for the last few weeks and I thought id see if anyone else has any thoughts or experiences that may help. Basically the servers in question are these: 3x dual amd mp 2400's, 1.5gb ram. 3x p4's 1gb ram, 3ghz, 2.8ghz and a 2.67ghz. The p4 singles seem to be running circles around the duals, ive performed several tests getting the boxes as full as possible. Dual mp 2400: 52 players, spread across 4 servers. 12man, 20man, 12man, 18man. The 20man and 18man are running metamod 1.17 and amx 0.9.7, and vac. The other 2 servers are just running vac. With this setup the cpu load is at 100% constant. P4 3Ghz: 35players, spread across 2 servers. 14man, 20man, 12man. The 20man is full running metamod 1.17 and clanmod 1.82b1 and vac. The other 2 servers are running metamod 1.17 and amx 0.9.7, and vac With this setup the cpu load is at 30-42% All servers were running the same map. As a cross reference the server on the p4 (20man) was using 20-25%. The 20man on the AMD dual was using 40-45% of total system cpu. I need to do further testing on this to get more extensive figures, but from early investigations despite having 2 cpu's each clocked at 2ghz (from memory), against a 3ghz single chip its being run circles around. IF the p4 figure are to go by, if I was happy with 100% cpu load, then I could have 70-80 players running off this box to get the same cpu useage as 52players on the dual! Now, the other duals are all having a similar story, the p4's are doing exceptionally well, even the 2.67 seems to be able to support more players than the dual. What do the rest of you think ? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.728 / Virus Database: 483 - Release Date: 27/07/2004 -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.727 / Virus Database: 482 - Release Date: 7/26/2004 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
