Spec me a css server

[Aelred89]

I want a counter-strike source server to take to LAN parties, i dont want to spend a great deal but must be capable of hosting a 24 man server lag free Many thanks

Aelred89

 

[Aelred89]

you dont need an amazin spec machine to run a server, you just need amazing badnwidth, which a lan will already provide you, would it not be possible to run the server from your rig whilst playing the game?

Yeh thats what i'm planning on doing if something can't be sorted out But it'd be nice to get something permanant.

Also, about running it on my system whilst playing, my friend seems to think because css isnt dual core optimised i'll be effectively running on a 2.4GHz cpu. But i'm running the dedicated server stand alone and then joining it myself, surely this is classed as two processes and would utilise my dual core cpu? ... if ya understand any of that

 

[Aelred89]

Thanks for the quick response dudes I might leave it then and just run both off my system I'll have to look into how to set the server to run on the 2nd core, it's not something thats occured to me to set applications to certain cores lol