AMD or Intel?

[Kris Kennaway]

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> [070910 16:32] wrote:
>> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> Palle,
>>>
>>> I really haven't kept pace with Intel versus AMD in a while, my
>>> understanding is that AMD is still the only 64bit game in town.
>>>
>>> For a database, the more memory you can get, the better.
>>>
>>> I've found many machines with 4 gigs of ram to not be enough to
>>> get decent performance from a database these days.
>>>
>>> I would suggest going with AMD and getting a board that can
>>> do at least 8GB if not 16 or even 32GB of ram.
>>>
>>> Even with what I've been hearing in this thread about a 20% speed
>>> difference with Intel parts, you will totally be ruined once you
>>> hit the 4GB barrier on your Intel hardware.
>> That's actually not true, intel came out with their first amd64 clone 
>> (which they call "EM64T") something like 3 or 4 years ago.  I cannot say 
>>  from first hand experience but I have heard that their current 
>> generation is solidly outperforming amd64.
> 
> Actually, what I said was true, it was my understanding that was
> wrong. :)
> 
> I guess the answer I was trying to say was, go for whatever
> gives you room for a lot of RAM.
> 

Yep, that is still good advice.

Kris