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[TinyBolts]

Hi, I'm new to this stuff and I need to make a server machine for hosting game servers(Don't starve together and Unturned, both games not needing much performance and ram to host nice servers) with max 30 players combined and a couple of light mods. Each DST player needs 65mb ram and Unturned idk. Location: Europe, Lithuania, not a very good place, but i will be mostly playing with europeans and friends. Budget 350-400 Euro. Any help with about what cpu, memory, motherboard and cooling I need is super helpful. Thanks!

[Nils3D]

Well hello there fellow baltic person.

Get a cheap single socket ATX LGA1366 motherboard, a Intel xeon X5660 perhaps ( 6 cores, 12 threads at 3GHZ) a LGA1366 compatible tower cooler, a case that can handle mostly everything, and 3x8gig non ecc dimm's, preferably a lower end GPU, for example a GT630 that's like 50-60 eur, and a 500W PSU that has 24+8 pin headers. the storage is up to you to choose.

ebay DE is full of that stuff.
go and have a look. 
a X5660 goes for like 40 EUR, and here you can consider the price to performance ratio instead of building on a newer platform for example.
All of my render farm uses the same x5660's, and it even outperforms some E5 2600 series xeons, not to mention i7's.

[TinyBolts]

12 minutes ago, Nils3D said:

Well hello there fellow baltic person.

Get a cheap single socket ATX LGA1366 motherboard, a Intel xeon X5660 perhaps ( 6 cores, 12 threads at 3GHZ) a LGA1366 compatible tower cooler, a case that can handle mostly everything, and 3x8gig non ecc dimm's, preferably a lower end GPU, for example a GT630 that's like 50-60 eur, and a 500W PSU that has 24+8 pin headers. the storage is up to you to choose.

ebay DE is full of that stuff.
go and have a look. 
a X5660 goes for like 40 EUR, and here you can consider the price to performance ratio instead of building on a newer platform for example.
All of my render farm uses the same x5660's, and it even outperforms some E5 2600 series xeons, not to mention i7's.

Is the 40 eur cpu rly good? And why gpu? No intel hd?

[Nils3D]

well those cpu's usually dont have any graphics in them, thus the option to go with dedicated GPU

and yeah those cpu's are good, since i use 2 of them in my workstation for heavy 3d tasks.

[TinyBolts]

Just now, Nils3D said:

well those cpu's usually dont have any graphics in them, thus the option to go with dedicated GPU

 

Mkey, but for some reason, 40 euros for 6cores, hyperthreading and 3ghz seems too good to be true, il l check lel.

[Nils3D]

well, i aint kidding, check the screenshot of mine

[Technomancer__]

3 minutes ago, TinyBolts said:

Mkey, but for some reason, 40 euros for 6cores, hyperthreading and 3ghz seems too good to be true, il l check lel.

they are old  + they have low clocks and since they are old less ipc

+ they are cheap because they are inefficient 

[TinyBolts]

3 minutes ago, Nils3D said:

well, i aint kidding, check the screenshot of mine

Wow, I hope it will work as great for server hosting as it does for you.

[TinyBolts]

1 minute ago, Ethocreeper said:

they are old  + they have low clocks and since they are old less ipc

+ they are cheap because they are inefficient 

Mkey, but would it work well?

[LHJKO]

you could get a cheap dell optiples 7010 for like 130$ with an i5 3470 in it and that should be able to run a server just fine 

[Nils3D]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

they are old  + they have low clocks and since they are old less ipc

+ they are cheap because they are inefficient 

i wouldnt be so hard pressed on that idea. Low clocks... yeap, not true. 
And they're cheap, because they're old, and people have swapped to 2011
 

[TinyBolts]

Just now, Vernw3 said:

you could get a cheap dell optiples 7010 for like 130$ with an i5 3470 in it and that should be able to run a server just fine 

2 servers with 30ppl max 24/7, will it rly do it?

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Nils3D said:

i wouldnt be so hard pressed on that idea. Low clocks... yeap, not true. 
And they're cheap, because they're old, and people have swapped to 2011
 

cant be used for heavy gaming because they are zeons

[Technomancer__]

Just now, TinyBolts said:

2 servers with 30ppl max 24/7, will it rly do it?

yea without a sweat

+ server ecc ram is cheaper so you can get more

[TinyBolts]

Z

1 minute ago, Ethocreeper said:

cant be used for heavy gaming because they are zeons

Not gaming, handling game servers.

[Technomancer__]

Just now, TinyBolts said:

Z

Not gaming, handling game servers.

yea i know

am not talking for your situation.

 

just look at my previous reply

2 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

yea without a sweat

+ server ecc ram is cheaper so you can get more

 

[Nils3D]

3 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

cant be used for heavy gaming because they are zeons

khm, i'm running forza H3, BF4, Deus EX, on my wokrstation at home.... without braking a sweat. Please google your facts

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Nils3D said:

khm, i'm running forza H3, BF4, Deus EX, on my wokrstation at home.... without braking a sweat. Please google your facts

i am not saying they cant game

 

but they luck behind in single core performance

[TinyBolts]

3 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

yea i know

am not talking for your situation.

 

just look at my previous reply

 

Do ram speeds mtter?

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

i am not saying they cant game

 

but they luck behind in single core performance

look at https://www.youtube.com/user/barnacules1 for example

[Technomancer__]

Just now, TinyBolts said:

Do ram speeds mtter?

not that much

[Nils3D]

on that platform you can run 1066/1333  but if you're doing a really base config server then not really.

[TinyBolts]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

not that much

So need about 1600mhz?

[Technomancer__]

Just now, TinyBolts said:

So need about 1600mhz?

1600mhz is fine

[Nils3D]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

1600mhz is fine

it'll downclock to 1333. because check intel ark of the supported memory speed for x5660
1066 and 1333, nothing more.