hey, a bit of questions about Server building

[kataras]

Hello there you all can see i am not a writter here, more like a reader id say. anyway i have got some questions to ask, or seek advise rather. So yeah i am on this mission to build myself a css server i want to colocate it once its done on 100 mb/s line with 2Tb bandwidth limit. So i was gonna build a 1u server with the following spec (please keep in mind that i want to spend as less as possible as its not really a clan server but my own one):

Intel c2d E2160 (thinking of overclocking it to ~3ghz)

Dynatron P35G copper 1u cooler (i think it should do the ocing bit nicely since c2d not as hot as Presshot's ar they, and E2xxx class doesnt need much of a voltage adjustment).

Gigabyte 965P DS3

3Gb of Corsair 667 CL4 ram (best price i could get, and since 667 with CL4 could reach speed of 800 at Cl5 seems to be the smartest choice to go for).

2x wd raptors 36gig each 10k rpm (raid 1 i guess).

Some PCI gfx card i will find under my bed

I have already bought the 1u case with 300W psu

so thats pretty much all the bits i was thinking of getting.

So the main thing which bother me is, how many slot CSS server could i build on this machine?

and

what about traffic, would 2tb and 100mb/s line be efficient enough so i could use up all those slots?

Cheers for your time reading this

ktr

PS. what chya think of ocing in telehouse, its quite cool there (18 degrees, at least thats what they say) plus the cooler is made of copper with high rpm fan (7k rpm i think) case is filled up with fans as well, 6 40x40x6 fans or something.

PSS. OS - Win Server 2003 (got it of a friend for free), but do you think i would get more slots of server using linux?

 

[FarFarAway]

I think you could have a pretty damn large CSS server on that, if you only had one server. I reckon you could set up a couple of nice servers on it actually

We have our servers overclocked so I see no problem there tbh

 

[Rastalovich]

Do u list the specs of the servers anywhere Kemp ?

 

[FarFarAway]

Do u list the specs of the servers anywhere Kemp ?

Of our Dual Xeon box, or the P4 box?

 

[Rastalovich]

Either and/both tbh, I was thinking in terms of people thinking like the op.

 

[kataras]

I think you could have a pretty damn large CSS server on that, if you only had one server. I reckon you could set up a couple of nice servers on it actually

Thats indeed what id like to know, how many slots, approximation - would do.

I also was thinking of having not one but a few css servers with different mods and amount of slots (i believe the largest server with standard maps is 64 slot, correct me if im wrong, i well might be).

The matter is the line. Hopefully, 2tb of bandwidth should be enough.

Also a few words on operating system would be appreciated.

Cheers

 

[FarFarAway]

Hmm, couldn't remember them exactly, but they go something like this:

Server 1

Processor: Intel P4 ?Northwood? @ 3.5GHz (OC'd from 2.6GHz I think)

HDD's: 400gb RAID 5 array

Cooling: CM Hyper6 + 2x Tornado's

Memory: ??Corsair 2gb PC3200??

OS: Win Server 2k3

Roles: OC3D Mail, Teamspeak, Counter Strike: Source Gun Game (Poss 2nd team Match)

Server 2

Processor: 2x Intel Xeon 2.4ghz @ 3.4ghz (6.8ghz total)

HDD's: 400gb RAID 5 array

Cooling: Heavily modified Intel 2u stock coolers

Memory: ??Corsair 2gb PC3200??

OS: Win Server 2k3

Roles: OC3D Website, Web Server, Counter Strike D2DM & Match