[mujina]

How many 66 tick source servers could you run on the new Dell PowerEdge R210 II you have just ordered? I know css tends to be more cpu heavy (£161.99 a month is a VERY good price for the specs )

Intel Xeon E3-1240 Processor - Holy mother of god, these processors are on another level than some of the others, it received a score of 7168 on http://www.cpubenchmark.net, thats 1873 MORE than the Intel Xeon X3450 (which are in the r210 plus priced at £149.99) + the R210 II have 8GB ECC 1333MHz DDR3 Ram rather than four gig

This post has been edited by mujina: 11 October 2011 - 01:00 AM

[KC-Justin]

Hi,

The new R210 II's are very powerful but we've only done BF3 testing on them so far. Given that the normal R210's can hold around 200+ slots of source, you'd expect the II to hold even more.

[mujina]

I thought the Intel Core2Duo Extreme could hold around 200 slots or was that before the engine got a few updates? If I was looking to achieve about 500 slots would it be more cost effective to run two smaller dedicated servers?

[KC-Justin]

The Core2duo range has no chance of hosting that many source slots. At a max I'd say around 100 depending on plugins on either the Pro or Extreme.

Source is still a relatively CPU heavy game and to cover 500 slots, you'd need a min of 2 x R210 II's to allow for headroom.

[SqeakyRocket]

How many Battlefield 3 slots is it estimated that the Dell PowerEdge R210 II can handle? I think I read somewhere that you expected something like one 64 slot server per core meaning 256 slot (4*64)? I just want to see if this is correct as the clan is currently arguing on what servers to install on our R210 II when battlefield 3 goes live.

Cheers

[KC-Justin]

SqeakyRocket, on 14 October 2011 - 01:14 PM, said:

How many Battlefield 3 slots is it estimated that the Dell PowerEdge R210 II can handle? I think I read somewhere that you expected something like one 64 slot server per core meaning 256 slot (4*64)? I just want to see if this is correct as the clan is currently arguing on what servers to install on our R210 II when battlefield 3 goes live.

Cheers

At first, we'll be recommending customers start with 3 x 64 and then a four can be added once it's confirmed all is well.

Due to the lack of available beta time to fully test 64 slot servers, a little bit of caution I think would be wise to start out. 4 x 64 should be no probs for the R210 II's which is essentially one per core but no hard set affinity.

[SqeakyRocket]

What if two 64 slot servers were installed on it. How many 32 slot servers would then be recommended? I think I saw some recommendation of 2 per core; is that still valid or has that changed after the beta?

[KC-Justin]

2 x 32 should be approx equal to 1 x 64 when comparing like with like maps as the game scales in a linear fashion. However, if you compare 2 x 32 Metro servers with 1 x 64 Caspian Border, the combined usage of the Metro servers would be lower.