Opteron vs Xeon in VOIP hosting

[spicypixel]

Just asking if anyone has had experience running VoIP such as Ventrilo or Teamspeak on both platforms and can compare.
Busy working on a few 1U racks for VoIP reselling and I can't find any sort of benchmark/comparison of running this kind of work load on the two archetectures.
Guess the choice is if a higher clocked 4c8t xeon will do better than the relatively lower clocked 12 or 8 core opterons.

That said my gut feeling is that the more numerous real cores on the AMD will be preferential.

Any help would be appreciated.

ps: we're talking about tens of 24 slot servers

 

[Qu3]

If your reselling, would it not be worth asking teamspeak / vent and find out the general consensus of what other resellers use..

 

[Xelene]

As above. Can't imagine it would make much difference either way, but i'd hazard a guess that more CPU threads would be better as there would be less context switching.

Send a polite email to Requiem @ FOHGuild, you'll need to track down his address yourself.

 

[#Chri5#]

I would have thought power comsumption would come into the decision as well. You'll run out of amps before space in most DCs these days...

 

[wij]

I would have thought power comsumption would come into the decision as well. You'll run out of amps before space in most DCs these days...

And given most of the bigger providers for Ventrilo / TS servers sell it at around 10p a slot you're going to have to sell thousands of them to even make it remotely worth while (probably be looking at 8K+ slots per month across a single machine to make it worthwhile).

Power in good DC's is as already mentioned getting to be the most expensive resource, but then even renting a dedicated box / decent VPS is going to cost you a reasonable sum even from a budget provider like Rapidswitch or similar.

Not trying to rain on your parade or anything but there is a reason why most of the big game server companies tend to give away 20slot voice servers with a game server.

For my tuppence worth when I used to be involved with a company that did game servers we used to run on Opterons, but that was a good 4ish years ago now and at the time it was the better option though these days I'd probably be inclined to say if you're building it yourself go for the lower power draw (a Dell R210 with a L3426 Xenon and 8Gb of RAM will draw about 0.2A).

 

[spicypixel]

Good timing, and I'm merely doing some on the side consulting and I happened to be approached on this topic and couldn't qualify an answer to asked here. He did indeed go with the Dell R210 which seems to be the de facto 1u1s solution (albeit noisy but its in a datacenter so its irrelevent)
And yeah I'm aware at the ability to make a profit on these things, and yes it'll be bundled with other products as opposed to a solo VoIP venture.

Thanks for the info.