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[rkm11]

A friend of mine just got a Dell Poweredge 6650 with 12GB of DDR266 Memory. We are looking to colocate the box and host game servers (CoD4). I'm not afraid about the processors so much (Dual Quad-Xeon's @ 2.7GHz), but I'm not sure about the memory speed.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
Ryan

[cristibighea]

Since you won't actually be playing games on the server, you shouldn't worry about it too much.

[neXeon]

It should still perform fine.

[Flumps]

it will perform just fine. with dual quads thats a nice spec. how many servers you planning on putting on the box. dont overload it and your be just fine.

[Simontt]

Its like almost 2 1/2 processor running the server game, and with 12GB, it will sure be fine, for other client/players to login or connect to the server to play the game. Just make sure your hard disk won't run out of storage.

[darkeden]

seems good make sure you get a decent upload speed. I ran a game mod and used a large amount of ram over 2gb but thats because it was a zombie mod.