darkwalker said:
Ok so you are maxing out the cpu’s on a $12k server and are going to replace it with a $1,800 server and expect to get better performance? Something is wrong with that equation.
Honestly, you’ve done nothing but come on here and whine about the decisions being made about WCU Gaming getting a new server. The new server is much more powerful than the old on a number of levels. CPU, Memory, and HDD. The CPU’s are faster, more efficient, and have 4 cores each. The memory is 4gb of registered ecc ddr2. The drives are going to be setup in a RAID 1 config for security from failure.
The old box was a dual opteron machine with 16gb of ddr ram. Opterons have a single core and 512kb/1mb l2 cache. The Intel Xeon chips are 4 core and 4mb of l2 cache.
DDR2 is also much faster than DDR memory.
Add into the equation that ITS is kicking WCU Gaming off of their current box and thats a pretty good reason to buy a new server.
On a happy note, we’ve collected $1785.67 and we need around $1900.00-$2000.00.
Thanks for everyones support on this!