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X3460 vs X5650 - Single Threaded Performance?

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Hello [H]ardOCP,

I own a gaming community based in CS:S, and recently we have been expanding. Right now I am running my CS:S servers on two dedicated servers, both running the exact same specs on a single Xeon X3460. Source Dedicated server is very CPU intensive, and it's single threaded. Once the game server fills up to around 80% of capacity, CPU usage nears 100%, and the lag ensues, so I am looking into various upgrade options.

My host is selling a Dual Xeon X5650 server for ~$330/month, and if I get that, I can move all of my servers on to this box and save a little bit of money since it would be cheaper than paying for two x3460 servers.

My question is, what do X5650 benchmarks look like? I can't seem to find performance figures anywhere, so I do not know what I am looking at. The x3460 I am currently running is a rebinned i7 860. I know that multi threaded performance would go way up since it's a 6-core CPU (It's also a different architecture, going from Lynnfield -> Nehalem), but what about single threaded performance, since that is my main concern, since what I will be running is a single-threaded server?

Thanks.
 
The X3460 might actually be slightly faster in single threaded applications as its clocked a tiny bit higher and turbos higher, but realistically they are going to be pretty even. The x5650 is going to be similar to an i7 920 in single threaded performance.

I find it odd though that a CSS server is maxing out a machine like that to the point of causing lag. I've run some source engine servers as well, probably not as seriously as you are though, but I've never encountered behavior like that. Are you running some kind of custom mods or something? Is this a shared host or VPS type setup?
 
we ran TF2 on an older Xeon 3.6ghz single core cpu and I don't remember it killing it.
 
Interesting. I was expecting the X5650 to be at least slightly faster than the X3460. I know it's clocked slightly lower, but it has a higher QPI frequency and it has higher caches. Plus it's newer so I figured there might be an architectural boost as well.

CS:S is significantly more CPU hungry since the orange box update came out. The server is not running anything too out of the ordinary. Just SourceMod with a few plugins. It's on a dedicated server, no VPS setup.

Thanks for your reply.
 
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