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help configuring poweredge 6650 as server

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Korialstrasza

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hey, I have a poweredge 6650 with these specs:

quad 4x P3 1.6Ghz Xeons
8GB PC1600 SDRAM
8X 36GB Seagate 10,000 RPM hdds


here's the dealio. This is overkill for what I need. In fact, it's like taking a tank and running over the road kill... 1000 times.

What I want:
- A Counter-Strike Server
- Web server

Can I configure it so that maybe 1 cpu is for the CS server, and the other 3 function as the webserver?
 
Don't worry about assigning the CPUs to different tasks.

Just run the servers and be happy you have some kick butt hardware.


>Br@d
 
Seriously, dude, a single xeon is probably overkill for a cs server and a web server. Just run an operating system that can handle it(linux or bsd) and you won't have to worry about assigning processes to the different cpus. Man that's a crazy system. I hope you didn't pay for it just for a cs server.
 
Originally posted by Korialstrasza
hey, I have a poweredge 6650 with these specs:

quad 4x P3 1.6Ghz Xeons
8GB PC1600 SDRAM
8X 36GB Seagate 10,000 RPM hdds


here's the dealio. This is overkill for what I need. In fact, it's like taking a tank and running over the road kill... 1000 times.

What I want:
- A Counter-Strike Server
- Web server

Can I configure it so that maybe 1 cpu is for the CS server, and the other 3 function as the webserver?
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uuhhh...i was never aware of a 1.6ghz Pentium3....let alone a 1.6ghz Pentium3 Xeon...
 
sorry my bad, 1.6ghz p4 is the max per cpu. Mine has four 900mhz p3 xeons.

But will everything be loaded onto 1 cpu then? or will it automatically even out across all four?

and no, I paid $400 for this. My sister is at the right position that she can get anything her company decides to throw out when they upgrade their systems. No way in hell I have 8k to spend on a computer :-D
 
Originally posted by Korialstrasza
sorry my bad, 1.6ghz p4 is the max per cpu. Mine has four 900mhz p3 xeons.

But will everything be loaded onto 1 cpu then? or will it automatically even out across all four?

and no, I paid $400 for this. My sister is at the right position that she can get anything her company decides to throw out when they upgrade their systems. No way in hell I have 8k to spend on a computer :-D
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this allows you to switch b/w p3's and p4's?
 
The 6650 has only and will only ever support Xeon MP processors. The 6450 supports Pentium III Xeon.

A nice piece of hardware none the less. Its to bad Intel never made the PIII Xeon with more than 256k of L2 cache.

I have 2 of the 6650's at work. Nice machines but they get the snot beat out of them by the 4p Opteron systems right next to them.

$400 is a steal(literally) if it is a 6650 or a 6450. The newest one I have is a $22000 machine.
 
We had a dual 2400+ with 1 gig of ddr ram running 12 or 14 cs servers, I'd say that would run twice that and still have room for a web server. 2 gigs of ram would be necessary.

~Adam

Edit: it has 8 gigs of sdram which would be 4 gigs of ddr ram, I'd say that's just ownage.
 
so I dont have to do any assigning? just slap everything on their and itll spread the work load over all 4 cpus on its own?
 
Originally posted by CleanSlate
We had a dual 2400+ with 1 gig of ddr ram running 12 or 14 cs servers, I'd say that would run twice that and still have room for a web server. 2 gigs of ram would be necessary.

~Adam

Edit: it has 8 gigs of sdram which would be 4 gigs of ddr ram, I'd say that's just ownage.
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8GB is 8GB, whether it is the higher bandwidth DDR or the lower bandwidth SDRAM.
 
Haha I meant effective bandwidth... Of course it still has 8 gigs of sdram, just effective bandwidth of 4 gigs ddr sdram, thus it has half the bandwidth of 8 gigs ddr and more capacity. I'm with you buddy. I probably shouldn't have truncated my thoughts.

~Adam
 
Originally posted by Korialstrasza
so I dont have to do any assigning? just slap everything on their and itll spread the work load over all 4 cpus on its own?
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No, the way MP cpus is that it splits everything up already, the OSes are what assign each cpu to each calculations, that's why you need an OS that supports MP technology (one of thsoe on the dell web site you posted would do).

~Adam
 
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