Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:32:18 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Subject: Re: AMD or Intel? Message-ID: <46E5D402.8060305@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070910224503.GO79417@elvis.mu.org> References: <E6C9DBADAE3839B380B736D7@rambutan.pingpong.net> <20070910224503.GO79417@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Palle, > > I really haven't kept pace with Intel versus AMD in a while, my > understanding is that AMD is still the only 64bit game in town. > > For a database, the more memory you can get, the better. > > I've found many machines with 4 gigs of ram to not be enough to > get decent performance from a database these days. > > I would suggest going with AMD and getting a board that can > do at least 8GB if not 16 or even 32GB of ram. > > Even with what I've been hearing in this thread about a 20% speed > difference with Intel parts, you will totally be ruined once you > hit the 4GB barrier on your Intel hardware. That's actually not true, intel came out with their first amd64 clone (which they call "EM64T") something like 3 or 4 years ago. I cannot say from first hand experience but I have heard that their current generation is solidly outperforming amd64. Kris
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