On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba < [email protected]> wrote:
> because load avg reached 9 yesterday, > for an ~20-seat LSTP (firefox, blender, oo, programming...) lab, > > Intel Core i7-860 (2.8G) 8mb LGA1156 Php 14450 > or > Intel Core i7-920 (2.66G) 8mb LGA1366 Php 14400, I would go for the i7-920. CPU power alone does not equate to better performance. It also needs to talk to other components of the system. So the bus can be a choke point. This is certainly the case for Intel Atoms. They run at 1.6Ghz but they are slow because the bus speed it supports is just 533 Mhz. A well balanced system with enough CPU power, with L1-3 Cache, and higher bus speed should give you better performance. Holden
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