Is my PC easily good enough for a lot of players?

[pureh]

Well, I know this is my first post on the forums, but I just wanted people to tell me what / how much I could host.

My computer runs 24/7, I hardly ever turn it off, even when im not on it.
Heres my specs :-

Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 1066Mhz, 2.40Ghz OVERCLOCKED ~ 4.1Ghz, 8MB Cache ---- (May be changing to a Q9550 which on another system, virtually same specs as mine, can run stable 4.6Ghz when overclocked on a 1.45vcore, which would be the better one?)


Operating System : Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, 64Bit
RAM : 8GB Geil Blackdragon - DDR2 CL5.0 @ 800Mhz
HDD : 2TB - 2X 1TB Samsung F1 Spinpoint - SATA 3GB/S, 7200RPM / 32MB Cache
Watercooling(Not really required) : Swifttech H20-220 Apex Ultima Plus ($400!)
Graphics(Not required) : 2X NVIDIA 295GTX in SLi


Im certain this can host a World of warcraft server, but I've been speaking with members from Eternion Wow, which hosts around 15,000 players over 5 servers. Would it be possible to host more than one my realm on my system?

Comments are welcomed.

Thanks.

 

[Cloud79]

whats your broadband upload speed?

 

[pureh]

Virgin Media 50MB Fibre Optic waiting to be installed in around a week. This is what I will be using. Im currently on 24MB with BeThere.

 

[pureh]

On a speed test at the moment I am hitting around 6000-8000KBP/s

((Sorry for the double post))

 

[teatime]

that is your UPLOAD speed?

 

[penihop]

thats low, not enuf for much players

 

[Diz`]

I have to laugh at your Swiftech setup running GTX 295's. You will have problems with your water cooling and in the future may end up losing your system, but I have a 1MB upload and 10MB download and I play fine with upwards of 50 friends on my old home server that has collected dust it has 2GB of DDR2 a 160GB WD Caviar and an AMD X2 5200+ with the old 90 nano core so you should be more than fine. My new system I put in simulated spawns that would mimic the resources of players and began having people send multiple packets to my server in high volume to test it and I can run that with 500 players or more and I just have an e7200 at 4.0Ghz on air with 2GB of RAM.

 

[FragFrog]

Of course, the question here is: is that a dedicated server, or your workstation? If it's a server, why does it have two GPU's? If it's a workstation, forget about running a server on it