dual vs single core opteron 100's

[Lars Tunkrans]

Ken Gunderson wrote:

>Greets Everyone:
>
>I was getting into a discussion the other day about this and decided to
>see what the FBSD amd64 gurus had to say about it.  Given approximately
>equal cost of, for example, a single core Opteron150 (2.4GHz) and a
>dual core Opteron165 (1.8GHz) under what kind of situations would
>one be preferred over the other?  
>
>fwiw- my friend asserts it will ALWAYS be the faster single core because
>of context switches and dual cores are optimized for highly multi-
>threaded OS's (e.g. WInblows). But 1) I think the scheduler has been
>improved in 6.0, and 2) he's a linuxer.
>
>And yes, I know what AMD has to say on this but am interested in the
>FBSD community's perspective on this w.r.t. FBSD.
>
>TIA
>
>  
>
The DUAL core will be prefferd  for Webservers, Application servers,   
and databases
that  are multithreaded  and transaction oriented.
The singel Core  will be preffered for Simulations,  Compute intensive 
stuff - image  Rendering ,
Games , that are  singel threaded.

//Lars