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From: Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Harpertown (also 10k vs 15k RPM)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:45:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248029120.1840.4.camel@mayo.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10907190746p6db98c94y5a7a432951880ac7@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 07:46 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I'm trying to decide between an AMD Barcelona or an Intel Harpertown
> quad-core CPU for a web/database server.  The Intel would have a 5%
> lower clock speed.  I've read that Harpertown outperforms Barcelona
> (by 20%?), but that the quad-core implementation isn't as good on the
> Harpertown.  It's surprisingly difficult to get comparative benchmarks
> on these at similar clock speeds.  Does anyone know which of these
> should perform better in a web/database server?  I support AMD on my
> non-critical systems, but I need performance for this server.
> 
> I'm also trying to decide between a 2.5" 10k HD vs. a 3.5" 15k HD.
> I've read that the 15k yields about a 20% I/O performance boost so I
> think I'll go for it.  I won't be using RAID at all.
> 
> - Grant

> I won't be using RAID at all.
If uptime is of no concern to you, then why even bother about speed?





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-19 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-19 14:46 [gentoo-user] {OT} AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Harpertown (also 10k vs 15k RPM) Grant
2009-07-19 18:45 ` Daniel Troeder [this message]
2009-07-20  9:04   ` Grant

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