From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSXeu-00056y-2x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:46:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F22BE00B5; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com (mail-ew0-f217.google.com [209.85.219.217]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B175E00B5 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy17 with SMTP id 17so1508407ewy.34 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:46:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QI/ik5uS5H5XoEqoehB9YEfhB+kJChD57PKCTBeam3o=; b=kmcfYFtkPE2f9E6mTuAargwTnUEu4jzw5mE4WTq7eq/KbO6Gg5VkepyG54cnEcr5RY H7PxVfonPbVM3mzOCU84fb3Sl4l8dPVYfVrQaw+JhkNRsWpJlm0UTnQsY6V5x9tKgYFm anTFO7TZU1SoTbaAYngxT+/YUYXl84uWotnLE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=m2KpxODwxQamsuJmQT2BciW7T5JO/t9TOfWwXj5yhTAa1GOXJk+NPo53rRPB0a/lOs oJpxcBE11ZDoCVTDVh+VERULIDwLPzG6IzlyrRBk3dLuulC5a+gbaTa9UiklEZ48/BLW zhJdoXmRDUD21avzH2UR/11dtvC7hHS5iitnQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.53.1 with SMTP id b1mr2402653eba.20.1248014793612; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:46:33 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10907190746p6db98c94y5a7a432951880ac7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] {OT} AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Harpertown (also 10k vs 15k RPM) From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d8a66255-ef81-4ded-83a4-a9bbfef05782 X-Archives-Hash: 15bb42ae2b3f5c6dd3a172e9aa3ba761 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