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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
Subject: Re: AMD or Intel?
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* Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> [070910 16:32] wrote:
> 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.

Actually, what I said was true, it was my understanding that was
wrong. :)

I guess the answer I was trying to say was, go for whatever
gives you room for a lot of RAM.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein