Looking into a cheap dedicated game server...

[Sovereign]

I have a Pentium D 830 and an ECS 945P-A that I won in a LegitReviews contest some time ago. I need, then, a videocard, power supply, case, RAM, DVD-ROM drive and hard drive. This is what I have picked out thus far (trying to keep it cheap, me and some buds are going to split the cost if we can for sure find a place to put the thing).

Videocard - eVGA GeForce 6200 LE TC

Power Supply - FSP Group (Forton Source) 350w w/24 pin ATX

Case - Thermaltake Mambo

RAM - PQI Turbo 1GB (2x512MB) DDR533

DVD-ROM - LG IDE CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive

Hard Drive - WD 40GB SATA1.5Gbps

Before shipping, this adds up to $237.65. Should I get 2GB RAM or will 1GB cut it? There will be 8 players on the server, maximum and only one game running at a time. It will most likely be run off a university connection.

 

[Met-AL]

You could actually run a few servers on it at a time with not a problem. 1GB would suffice. I was part of a group that leased a dual Xeon server from I365 and with a 50 man BF2 server that was full all the time, a 24 man CS:S server, a couple of SOF2 servers the RAM usage wasn't that bad. 1GB worked rather well, but if you are sending this out for co-location, upgrades will be a pain or expensive to have your hosting datacenter do it for you, so putting in 2GB would be a good idea for future proofing it.

Good luck with finding a place to co-locate. Please post back if you find a good place that doesn't cost a fortune per month.

 

[Sovereign]

What I meant by "co-location" was basically putting it in a university datacenter or in the house one of my friends rents...."educational purposes" FTW! The server would be easily accessibile, just down the street from me. The games we would run are BF2, Republic Commando, Halo, CS:S and perhaps Doom3/Quake4. Not all at the same time, of course. It would be our private server, so even though I could run multiple games, I probably would not. However....rent out the other core (run one game on one core and one on the other)....rent =