On 3/14/11 11:16 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
AMD stuff is
available
but doesn't promise the performance of a Sandy Bridge machine that
you probably can't buy :). Again, just don't get sucked into the rat
race.
I keep hearing this "Intel make CPUs that wipe the floor AMDs" over and
over again, and whilst true this doesn't tell the whole story.
Is that actually true? One company I run some systems for has a
bunch of Opterons and a bunch of Xeons, and consistently I can put a lot
more load on the Opterons before they start behaving like molasses.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL