In addition to what has already been said:
Asus, like SuperMicro, makes excellent barebone server hardware these days, but you are going to end up with a motherboard that only takes Xeon processors.
I am hosting on an AMD Phenom x6 1055T and an old cheap desktop board. Everything runs great with multiple TF2, CSS, L4D, and other servers. More cores on the cheap. I am being limited by RAM right now because of the old motherboard being DDR2, so I can't tell you what the CPU limitations are, but stacking one fully-loaded 32-player TF2 server per-core leaves plenty of room for stacking a L4D server on top of each.
I paid $200 for the CPU, and all the other hardware was trash I had laying around at the time.
Saint K. wrote:
Hi, I am looking into buying a new server (we colo our servers, so own the hardware). Now it's been 3 years ago we last bought new machines so I am completely stuck in my research. I am really curious to know what the CPU of choice is here with people who own their *own* hardware and what you manage to run off these CPU's. Our current servers exist of Xeon CPU's, however, I am told that TF2/CSGO etc. servers run just as good off, for example, i7 CPU's. Please share your experiences with me! Cheers, Saint K. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
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