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Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
Subject: Re: AMD or Intel?
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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