On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:30, amka <a...@hispeed.ch> wrote: > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 01:56 -0600, Mark Allums a écrit : >> On 12/12/2009 6:32 PM, amka wrote: >> > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. >> > AMD or Intel ? >> > >> > Could someone give me please an advice ? >> > >> > I have actualy an AMD Opteron and the idea is, for the moment, to buy : >> > >> > - CPU AMD Opteron 1356 >> > - Motherboard Tyan Tomcat n3400B (S2925-E) >> > - Memory Kingston KVR800D2E6K2/4G (2x kit of 2x2GB = 8GB) >> > >> > Perhaps somebody have an experience with some of that. > >> I guess what I am saying is, look to your application. You did not tell >> us what you were building this machine for. > > Yes, I did not tell. I should, I regret. > > I am going to build a Postgresql server, and will execute a lot of perl > (local) scripts in relation with the database. A lot of read/write in > large tables (>10'000'000 rows), so I need (several) indexes... which > have to be updated at each write. > > The scripts will have to do a lot of manipulations with datas.
<snip> > But I have simply a doubt... Is the AMD Opteron a good choice ? > I *presume* it's the best of AMD, and I wonder if Intel would be better. Nehalem (Core i7) Xeon Review http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3536 Six core Istanbul Opteron Review: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3571 Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
