C2D E6750 or i7 920?
stgrim
Join Date: 2012-09-12 Member: 159079Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2012-09-12 Member: 159079Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Hi Guys,
I'm from Singapore and there used to be a very strong community of local NS1 players here back in the day.
Unfortunately most of us have moved on to other games and interests. I'm trying to revitalize interest in NS2 and getting a dedicated server running this weekend with some spare computer parts I have lying around. Is there an ideal clockspeed and RAM capacity I should gun for?
I have a spare Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66ghz/Max TDP 65w) on the LGA775 platform with 4GB DDR2-800 and a i7 920 (2.66ghz/turbo to 2.93ghz/Max TDP 130w) on the LGA1366 platform with 6GB DDR3-1333.
The E6750 is a good clocker and can probably be pushed to 3.4Ghz or so. The i7 is exactly the opposite and already runs very hot at stock speeds.
Bearing in mind that server threads are largely single-threaded and heavily dependant on raw clockspeed, which do you think is more efficient for this purpose? If the i7 920 is going to consume 20% more power for only a 5% increase in performance then it isn't worth it.
Either config will run on a 500w 80-plus bronze PSU and an Intel SSD.
I'm from Singapore and there used to be a very strong community of local NS1 players here back in the day.
Unfortunately most of us have moved on to other games and interests. I'm trying to revitalize interest in NS2 and getting a dedicated server running this weekend with some spare computer parts I have lying around. Is there an ideal clockspeed and RAM capacity I should gun for?
I have a spare Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66ghz/Max TDP 65w) on the LGA775 platform with 4GB DDR2-800 and a i7 920 (2.66ghz/turbo to 2.93ghz/Max TDP 130w) on the LGA1366 platform with 6GB DDR3-1333.
The E6750 is a good clocker and can probably be pushed to 3.4Ghz or so. The i7 is exactly the opposite and already runs very hot at stock speeds.
Bearing in mind that server threads are largely single-threaded and heavily dependant on raw clockspeed, which do you think is more efficient for this purpose? If the i7 920 is going to consume 20% more power for only a 5% increase in performance then it isn't worth it.
Either config will run on a 500w 80-plus bronze PSU and an Intel SSD.
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I'm from Singapore and there used to be a very strong community of local NS1 players here back in the day.
Unfortunately most of us have moved on to other games and interests. I'm trying to revitalize interest in NS2 and getting a dedicated server running this weekend with some spare computer parts I have lying around. Is there an ideal clockspeed and RAM capacity I should gun for?
I have a spare Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66ghz/Max TDP 65w)) on the LGA775 platform with 4GB DDR2 and a i7 920 (2.66ghz/turbo to 2.93ghz/Max TDP 130w)) on the LGA1366 platform with 6GB DDR3.
The E6750 is a good clocker and can probably be pushed to 3.4Ghz or so. The i7 is exactly the opposite and already runs very hot at stock speeds.
Bearing in mind that server threads are largely single-threaded and heavily dependant on raw clockspeed, which do you think is more efficient for this purpose? If the i7 920 is going to consume 20% more power for only a 5% increase in performance then it isn't worth it.
Either config will run on a 500w 80-plus bronze PSU and an Intel SSD.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Core i7, better memory bandwidth, faster clock per clock then a core 2 duo. Also Produces alot more GFLOPs. Cheaper memory. Also are you using stock cooling on the i7?
If you added a 3rd party cooler, you could get it to 3.6/3.8ghz easy, depending upon your motherboard and cooler. Also if you disable hyper-threading, it should cooler off the cpu, and allow more room to overclock wtih lower voltages.
Especially since NS2 only uses 2 threads.
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