[Rhodan]

Here's the important parts of the hardware:

Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 (2.4ghz)
4 gig ram PC2-6400 800mhz (can go to 8gig)
160gig SATA HD
XP Pro 64 bit (to use >3gig ram).

I have 10 mbps download (to my server) and 1mbps upload (from server) currently but thinking of upgrading my service since the TOS doesn't allow me to run a server of any kind with the current package.

Disk space is cheap and I have a lot of space for more drives if required.

I currently have 65 zones loaded and thats using about 400-450 MB of ram (empty of players of course). All 287 zones would require (at least) 2 gig ram. Webserver/mysql and system take up about 500 megs (make it 1 gig for worst case) so 4 gig can hold all that with room to spare. What I don't know is how much ram each online character adds to the equation or how much more ram a large zone with 30 characters in it uses compared to when its empty. But, another 4 gigs of ram is fairly cheap!

If I need to I can cobble together a second comp and offload the webserver/database server to that.

Any idea what a system like this could handle?

oh... And is EQEmu able to take advantage of the quad processor?