OK so now I’m really confused. My friend who was a RCC last year said that the gaming server is a HP DL 385 with dual cores and dual proc. and 16gb of RAM. I went and looked at the spec on HP’s site. That thing is a monster. It’s got AMD opteron’s and it would have to have matched pair ECC Ram. With 16gb that’s $2k for JUST the RAM! The whole thing spec’s out at like $12k! The HDD’s would be 15k RPM SAS (serial attached SCSI). I know you want to buy a quad core dual proc. but I wouldn’t think it’s the CPU cycles that you need to be concerned about. I would guess with the games you all are running, it’s not even touching the processors. Most of these games are I/O and RAM intensive not clock cycle. The HP can hold up to 6 drives. With that spindle count in a RAID array, it would laugh at SATA drives for I/O. What are the specs of the $1800 system? Won’t you be taking a big performance hit to move to it? I’m big into WoW and CS and don’t want the lag. Sounds like your rankings are going to go down. To bad you have to switch. I was thinking about joining the club since it had the best spec’s I’ve seen and it’s part of WCU. But it sounds like ASU is going to have better performance.
