LAN Party dedicated server

[lancethepants]

I'm planning on hosting a LAN Party at my place in the upcoming weeks, and was just starting to get everything ready. I want to set up a dedicated server, and I've got a older computer that might do the trick. I was just wondering if these computer's specs would handle it.

Pentium 4 1.5 ghz @400mhz fsb
512 mb sdram
Windows xp

Usually we play some Halo, Counter-strike, unreal 2004, warcraft III, call of duty.

Do you think this rig would host these games alright?

thanks

[ShyguyXPC]

it depends, a dedicated LAN servers requirements varies from game to game, but I would say for CS, COD, & Warcraft 3, it should work fine, those are all older games, not sure about Halo, but it should, as to UT2004, not sure on that.

the thing that might hurt you on some of the games, is the 512MB of system RAM, its not bottom of the barrel, but could use a bit more, if it were me, I'd have no less than 768MB, but then again, it all depends on the games being run. (and whatever else is installed & running on the server as well, besides the OS)

probably the best thing to do, is figure out which games you want to run, then narrow those down by looking up their mimimum specs required, either for the game itself, or if there are minimum server specs listed somewhere.

[GroundZero3]

The machine will be perfectly fine for a LAN server, however if you can boost the ram up a little bit more would be better.

You probably wont notice a difference however ever little bit helps!

How many are you planning to have at your LAN party?