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Like WCU Gaming? We are in danger of losing our server and are attempting to buy a new one. You can help us out by going to this link and donating whatever you can! We are saving for a dual quad core machine which means better registry and less lag. We are already HALF WAY THERE so help us out!!!!!!!
Kuros said:
Like WCU Gaming? We are in danger of losing our server and are attempting to buy a new one. You can help us out by going to this link and donating whatever you can! We are saving for a dual quad core machine which means better registry and less lag. We are already HALF WAY THERE so help us out!!!!!!!Anything helps!! $5, $10, $20, its all appreciated and going towards a good cause!
Come on everyone! We are shooting for $1800.00 and we currently have $1045.83! Help the gaming club get its new server. This will allow us to run TF2, CS:S, CS1.6, etc, all with better registry and faster speed on the server side!
Not to mention, we are loosing the server, so if we dont get this, we dont get to play!
idk why there is two of these but ok i can give about 50 to 100 next paycheck but i need something in return
I get paid tomorrow. And I pledge to give $50 if the admins all agree to make bracket a beacon for one entire day of my choosing. Whenever there is an admin on at the same time as bracket, he’s a beacon. There’s my deal, take it or leave it.
ps. i might donate anyway… but consider this my final offer!
I think it’s really sad that 1.6 players talk so much junk about Source and the people who play Source and then none of the almighty 1.6 players care enough to help save our server. The Source players have donated over 800 bucks and the 1.6 players haven’t given the club one red cent toward keeping their server.
red said:
donated
how much more is needed?
We are currently at $1387.08 and the goal is $1800.00. Thanks Red!
Donated! And I’m sure anyone reading this that hasn’t donated can at least help a little! It’s not hard… and it’s for a great cause. And I’d also like to thank touchdown, great job man.
Renton said:
Donated! And I’m sure anyone reading this that hasn’t donated can at least help a little! It’s not hard… and it’s for a great cause. And I’d also like to thank touchdown, great job man.W00T! Thanks Renton!
Liam said:
Come on everyone! We are shooting for $1800.00 and we currently have $1045.83! Help the gaming club get its new server. This will allow us to run TF2, CS:S, CS1.6, etc, all with better registry and faster speed on the server side!Not to mention, we are loosing the server, so if we dont get this, we dont get to play!
I’m new to WCU and the game club. How come your loosing the server? My friend from last year said the server kicked *edited*!
StriFe said:
id donate 50$ but i can’t figure out how to get a paypal :SAll you have to do is go to the donate page, you can click the picture in my signature for a quick link. Put in an amount at the top and then click ‘continue’. No paypal account required.
Kuros said:
I think it’s really sad that 1.6 players talk so much junk about Source and the people who play Source and then none of the almighty 1.6 players care enough to help save our server. The Source players have donated over 800 bucks and the 1.6 players haven’t given the club one red cent toward keeping their server.OUCH, called out by El Presidente, as I consider myself one of the staunchest anti-sauce admins on WCU. Just made a donation
.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.
darkwalker said:
But it sounds like ASU is going to have better performance.LOL enjoy your empty server.
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I would guess with the games you all are running, it’s not even touching the processors.Guess again. 1.6 by itself stays at 30% CPU. Imagine what the full source server does.
lol, yeah, most steam games are actually processor intensive, especially, source. If anything we will get better performance. Plus we are going to be having a pretty popular TF2 server on it coming soon. Not sure if it’s done in source, if so it will eat even more processor for lunch with dx10 in there.
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.
IT has taken over our box and running all sorts of other stuff, thus only givving us the little leftovers scrap percentage of the 10k box.
on top of it was a 10k box 3 years ago, and the price of technology is aids
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!
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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.I can’t wait to play on this bad boiiiii!
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