Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:26:12 +0100 From: Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> To: white@prokhorenko.us Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Core 2 Duo and FreeBSD Message-ID: <45542994.7080406@fluffles.net> In-Reply-To: <C1792954.3B9B%white@prokhorenko.us> References: <C1792954.3B9B%white@prokhorenko.us>
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Olexandr Prokhorenko wrote: > Hello guys, > Oh, now you're discriminating! ;-) > I¹m considering getting a new Core 2 Duo (Intel® Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU > 2.13GHz) server to run under FreeBSD. I briefly searched the Internet and > found some concerns and trouble reports about FreeBSD and Core 2 Duo > servers. Do you have a URL for me of those reports? Are they specific to the CPU? That would surprise me alot. :) Actually i think Core 2 Duo will run just fine. But like with all new hardware going in-production, you should first conduct extensive testing. Such as: memory and CPU stresstests (prime cpu stresstests/memtest86) and actual tests with the version of FreeBSD you're going to run (i take it you'll want to run AMD64?). > I really need to use this server for high load production use and > it¹s not acceptable for me to have the server running into any kind of > problems, crashes, or whatever else. As an alternative to Core 2 Duo, I was > thinking about Intel® Pentium® D 945 Dual Core 3.4GHz, but I was told that > it has significantly less power. > In fact, it uses significantly more power; but delivers significantly less processing power. If you were to consider Pentium D you really should be looking at AMD Athlon 64 X2 instead, since they outbeat Pentium D in just about every way. But with Core 2 Duo it's different; they perform sometimes up to two times better than the Pentium D and uses significantly less power. Although the idle usage is still twice that of comparable Athlon 64 X2 processors. By the way i would recommand the E6600 version instead, if you require alot of processing power. They also have twice as many cache. - Veronica
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