On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-li...@karan.org> wrote:

> On 06/03/2009 04:12 AM, Alok G. Singh wrote:
>
>> however for this sort of a workload, the opterons at the same
>>> specification level as the Core2 would be a better performing setup.
>>>
>>
>> Even the newest Xeons ? I thought differently. Would you have any
>> benchmarks to share ?
>>
>
> Some of the new i7 kit from Intel is indeed where the 'action' is at these
> days - but if you look at the specifications and price points for those, its
> cheaper to build a larger AMD based setup to get better performance per
> $costfactor.
>
> However, the sort of machine that Abhishek is looking at isnt quite a i7
> box, is it ?
>

Thanks a lot for these guys i have though opted for a Core2quad.
thanks
abhi
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