Computer Question

[techguy84]

My DSL router is the same damn way. It tends to go into a safe mode when I leave me torrents running overnight due to a overload in connections. I think it handles like 100 or so connections in total, half opens, ups, downs, ect.. I have to do a reboot on it sometimes as it damn near disables the WAN side interface killing my connections.

[Cowboy6534]

So im building a new rig at newegg.com and its basically a 3.0g amd dual core with 6gigs of ddr2(800) corsair xms. also my dsl at my house it is 5megs dl and 768ul. I run just a modem and a switch. i was wondering if i could use this machine to run the server and play in the server at the same time?? switch is a linksys 5 port workgroup switch. Any thoughts or suggestions will be highly appreciated.

[Damilis]

Originally Posted by Cowboy6534

So im building a new rig at newegg.com and its basically a 3.0g amd dual core with 6gigs of ddr2(800) corsair xms. also my dsl at my house it is 5megs dl and 768ul. I run just a modem and a switch. i was wondering if i could use this machine to run the server and play in the server at the same time?? switch is a linksys 5 port workgroup switch. Any thoughts or suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Just becareful about what OS you pick. Some Windows OS's don't address anything past 3 Gigs of physical ram. Do a bit of research before dropping all that $$ on ram.

As for all on one machine... two physical machines are better, if you can swing it.

[DarkGothic]

I am running on and old gateway server I got from surplus shop it has 4-733 Xeon and 8g ram 60g-sisc. run good for me and all my friends to play on, you can find good old server all the time CHEEP!! I only paid $20 for it. Look around and start with and older one to see if it is what you relay like.

[vales]

20 bucks for a server with 8 gigs of ram plus extras?

I'm sorry, but I find that highly unfathomable. A decent keyboard costs more than that these days.

[Damilis]

I dont, its old tech. I sold about 4 gigs worth of PC100/133 for about $15 on Craigslist a few months back... took awhile to sell too $20 for a hunk of silicon someone wants to get rid of is entirely possible.

[Cowboy6534]

I was going to go with Xp Pro 64bit edition. If that doesnt work ill go with windows server 2008 code name "longhorn".