From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrOTW-0004zd-KY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:52:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAC1obT7018856; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:50:37 GMT Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAC1oaeY018850 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:50:37 GMT Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([68.238.178.87]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JRD00KQDEG1Y3U4@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:50:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC29E124084 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:50:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:50:24 -0500 From: Richard Freeman Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon? In-reply-to: <200711111503.13509.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4737B160.2050205@thefreemanclan.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary=------------ms010601000800090408080705 OpenPGP: id=A6665569 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 References: <20071110081152.4065e4db@mandalor.homelinux.net> <200711111503.13509.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070813) X-Archives-Salt: 2316e1ac-1f99-411d-8929-618d541edfaa X-Archives-Hash: c96f5964ed68cddb86bd617404bf33ee This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010601000800090408080705 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard Auzinger wrote: > > Why do you compare two systems with a different number of cores? 2x2Core > athlon64 versus 2x4Core Core2Duo. > I'm not sure that equal number of cores is the appropriate benchmark to use. I'd focus on equal total system cost, or equal total system wattage, or equal total system size or something along those lines. When I want to build a PC I don't want the best 2-core system I can get, I want the best system I can get for a given cost. If I were in a datacenter I might be more interested in power/heat since those have all too high a cost of their own. I really don't care who builds the best CPU around - unless I'm just looking to spend up to $10k and I really want the most power I can fit onto a motherboard. 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