Martins wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to figure out which platform to use on my new server.
Server's primary and almost only role is mysql, huge databases (can
grow up to terabyte or so), so I'm considering enough big ammount of
RAM which probably allso will grow over 4GB, so at this point I think
x86 32bit becomes problematic becuase of PAE, so I will loose some
ammount of RAM for remapping and also I will lose in performance. Is
this true this far? So I'm considering to use AMD 64bit, so no problem
with RAM? Which system would be faster: dual processor AMD 64bit with
RAM>4GB or dual Intel Xeon 32bit with RAM>4GB?
If AMD 64 bit wins, which motherboard would be more reliable and
faster to use (2CPUs, DDR2 memory up to 16GB or so)?
Thanks in advance!
You'll want to go with 64bit either way... I'm an AMD fan, so that aside :-D
http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/04/22/duel_of_the_titans/
That lists several benchmarks, and unless you are getting top of the
line stuff, that is still valid (IMO, the review was written in 2003...)
You say AMD and Xeon, so I'm under the assumption that you are looking
at Opteron.
<opinion>
I would go with the Opteron for the performance/watt/$
</opinion>
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Thanks,
James
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