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 1IraTL-00066N-AB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:41:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lACEdFhm024632; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:39:15 GMT Received: from penguin.linuxhardware.org (penguin.linuxhardware.org [63.173.68.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lACEdEes024625 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:39:15 GMT Received: by penguin.linuxhardware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A1B01E968; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penguin.linuxhardware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284F21E8F6 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:39:14 +0000 (UTC) From: "Kris Kersey (Augustus)" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon? In-Reply-To: <200711111503.13509.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: References: <20071110081152.4065e4db@mandalor.homelinux.net> <200711111503.13509.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> 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: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 955780ac-0733-4b32-a8c7-7dbd6b64db73 X-Archives-Hash: 1f6ab4c46228c0a9398e3bf03d297676 Because, at the time, that was the best available from both AMD and Intel. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the prices were similar at the time. Notice that I was careful to also do some core vs. core benchmarks so that you could possibly compare dual-core Xeons and look forward to Barcelona. Thanks, Kris Kersey (Augustus) LinuxHardware.org Site Manager augustus@linuxhardware.org Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer augustus@gentoo.org AIM: Augustus22 On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: > Am Samstag 10 November 2007 schrieb Kris Kersey (Augustus): >> Conway, >> >> While it doesn't include Barcelona, you probably would find my review on >> LinuxHardware.org very useful in your decision making process. It >> included the latest Xeon and Opteron processors using Tyan boards. Here's >> the link: >> http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/1414204&mode=thread >> >> If you have any other questions, I'll be happy to help. >> >> Thanks, >> Kris Kersey (Augustus) >> LinuxHardware.org Site Manager >> augustus@linuxhardware.org >> Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer >> augustus@gentoo.org >> AIM: Augustus22 > > Why do you compare two systems with a different number of cores? 2x2Core > athlon64 versus 2x4Core Core2Duo. > > Rgds > Bernhard > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list