Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Claus Guttesen
> 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. > Pls. don't top post!! > > -Alfred > > * Palle Girgensohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070910 03:16] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are looking at getting a server fo

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin Cracauer wrote: For integer workloads Intel's Core2-base Xeons outperforms K8 (the old-school AMD64) by about 25-30% per clock per core. K10 seems to be 5-15% faster than K8 for integer workloads (I hope to run my benchmark suite on one thi week or weekend). the guys at heise.de pu

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Pathiakis
On Monday 10 September 2007 14:46:21 Martin Cracauer wrote: > For integer workloads Intel's Core2-base Xeons outperforms K8 (the > old-school AMD64) by about 25-30% per clock per core. K10 seems to be > 5-15% faster than K8 for integer workloads (I hope to run my benchmark > suite on one thi week

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
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 per

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
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 t

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, September 10, 2007 11:46 am, Martin Cracauer wrote: > On the other hand, if you want K8 or K10 in a modern SMP mainboard you > have to live with NVidia for chipsets, and the socket F boards all have > the MPC55 SATA controller, which iirc is unsupported by both BSD and > Linux. MPC65 moved

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Martin Cracauer
For integer workloads Intel's Core2-base Xeons outperforms K8 (the old-school AMD64) by about 25-30% per clock per core. K10 seems to be 5-15% faster than K8 for integer workloads (I hope to run my benchmark suite on one thi week or weekend). However, tasks that use multiple cores and have thread

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Pathiakis
Be very, very careful in purchasing Core 2 Duo. There are major problems with the chip that have been documented across the board. Many, many people are steering clear of the chip for at least a year. This brings up a simple thought... is it better to stick with a tried and true chip at pre

AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi, We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only postgresql, a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we plan on using it as the OS. We have an offer for an IBM server, x3650, with 2 * DC Intel Xeon 5160, Raid with two clusters, one for database and one for xl

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Palle Girgensohn wrote: Now, I hear rumors that AMD is to be preferred over Intel for performance reasons. Any comments on that? Are we better off getting AMD processors, when running Unix? AMD announced today the new quad core. Their benchmarks are promising. But not the dual core ve

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On måndag, september 10, 2007 18.32.18 +0800 Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Palle Girgensohn wrote: Now, I hear rumors that AMD is to be preferred over Intel for performance reasons. Any comments on that? Are we better off getting AMD processors, when running Unix? AMD

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Palle Girgensohn wrote: Now, I hear rumors that AMD is to be preferred over Intel for performance reasons. Any comments on that? Are we better off getting AMD processors, when running Unix? AMD announced today the new quad core. Their benchmarks are promising. But not the dual core ver

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Claus Guttesen
> We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only postgresql, > a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we plan on using it > as the OS. > > We have an offer for an IBM server, x3650, with 2 * DC Intel Xeon 5160, > Raid with two clusters, one for database and one for x

AMD or Intel?

2007-09-10 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi, We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only postgresql, a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we plan on using it as the OS. We have an offer for an IBM server, x3650, with 2 * DC Intel Xeon 5160, Raid with two clusters, one for database and one for xl