h3llkill3r

I currently have a normal Q6600 with 8GB Ram and 500GB Sata2 HDD and now i need a more powerfull server as it's not enough because the websites are slowing down and game servers are lossing. I would like now to build a custom build server and as i never built one i would like your help in choosing the parts. I'm going to have Debian, Ubuntu or Centos as my OS(still undecided though as i know how to use them all but don't know what i'm going to use). As an internet connection i'm going to have a 2 connections of 100mb/s each.

CPU:Intel or AMD(don't make any difference but i would like the best as i'm not going to upgrade this server every year ...)
RAM:4 or 8GB
HDD:any


About the price don't worry if it comes a little bit high but not very high then..

All your help is appriciated.

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DuckieHo

Soo..... what's the budget in numeric form?

Please provide more details on usage pattern.... The RAM, CPU, and/or HD may be the bottleneck depending on the load.

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bobfig

im thinking it would be better just to make a 2nd computer to off load some games or the web sites on to. if not we can put together a $3k build for ya XD

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h3llkill3r

hmm well the thing is that i'm not going to buy the server but the sponsors are xD for now they didn't gave me a price range but we should be able to have a 2-3K$ build even a little bit higher.

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DuckieHo

What kind of network connection is avaliable? What's the usage pattern?

Please provide ALL the details and requirements so that we can provide an optimal build the best meets the needs and limitations.

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Dennisjr13

I'm with Duckie. You said there will be 2 connections of 100mb/s each: did you mean for LAN, or is this going in some kind of datacenter with a 2x100mb/s WAN?

What kind of usage is your current server seeing that is saturating a Quad with 8GB of RAM? I would highly suggest running websites and miscellaneous things off a different (budget) server so the dedicated game server can focus its CPU priority on games. Unless this is going to be a rackmount system where space needs to be kept at a minimum, splitting the load seems like a much more cost friendly option.

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h3llkill3r

It will be 2x100mb/s WAN in a data center and i would like to have everything on 1 server since i talked to the data center where the server is going to be and told me that they only want 1 server because of space and it want to be a rack mount server as they are not accepting any more servers like normal pcs.

The game servers are lossing because i want more ram as i have 7.5GB out of 8GB Ram Used and the cpu is running BETWEED 50-90% and somtimes when many servers restart together the cpu goes to 100% and sometimes there will be a servers that crash.

The server is going to host websites,ftp accounts and many types of game servers with control panel(CoD2,4,5,CSS,TF2 and many more). I don't know what any other information i left out(as i'm a hoster i don't know alot about server building).

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bobfig

TYAN S7002G2NR-LE Dual LGA 1366 -$255
Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26GHz -$385 x2
Kingston 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 -$151 x2

i think that will do, but do you need new hdd's, case power supply?

Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB -$75 x2 for raid1 for data integrity
CORSAIR CMPSU-750HX -$170 (MIR -$10)
COOLER MASTER RC-690 -$70
just saw it would be a rack mount so what size rak mount? 2u,3u, or 4u case?? if possable go at least a 4u like this:
ARK IPC-4U600 Black Steel 4U Rackmount Server Case -$86

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h3llkill3r

hmmm i think it's good but the problem is that i want a rack mount server as i just phoned to the data center and asked them about the space and yeah i want everything new as the servers i'm using right now is on till i settle everything on the new one.

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bobfig

ia im slow at finding stuff it was maybe 20 min looking up that stuff and u posted that before i was done and i didn't see it. i edited it for ya

o and look into some high end server fans and dust filters.

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