I'm building a $400-$430 budget server computer. The computer will run on Debian 7 linux to get the most performance. It will be a home server running services such as 1. Vsftpd 2. Samba 3. BIND DNS 4. Game servers such as Minecraft, Gmod, Xonotic (only one at a time).
Right now I have an old computer doing all of this and it does it fairly well, P4 1.7ghz and 1.5gb of memory (it can't handle GMod or MC very well though and the PC is old so it's not really reliable to store data on there)
I can't decide whether to go with AMD or Intel, my main concerns are for the game servers, the other services listed about I know will run fine considering I've ran them on computers with lower specs. I see getting the AMD as being able to overclock it, having a true quad core (more things running right?). With the Pentium, people usually say Intel has a higher core clock speed compared to AMD and dedicated servers usually only use 1 core so would the Intel be faster? But then this would mean I would have only one core left for everything else.
What do you think?
Right now I have an old computer doing all of this and it does it fairly well, P4 1.7ghz and 1.5gb of memory (it can't handle GMod or MC very well though and the PC is old so it's not really reliable to store data on there)
I can't decide whether to go with AMD or Intel, my main concerns are for the game servers, the other services listed about I know will run fine considering I've ran them on computers with lower specs. I see getting the AMD as being able to overclock it, having a true quad core (more things running right?). With the Pentium, people usually say Intel has a higher core clock speed compared to AMD and dedicated servers usually only use 1 core so would the Intel be faster? But then this would mean I would have only one core left for everything else.
What do you think?
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