Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

[Jack Toering]

 >I'm very delighted with our four-way woodcrest at 3 Ghz. It's a HP DL 380
G5. I have two four-way opterons at 2 Ghz but hz for hz the woodcrest is
(way) faster.<

These are things I need to hear bacause it doesn't make sense for me to
watch these things until I'm in the market because the technology moves so
fast.

Thank you very much for your response!

-----Original Message-----
From: Claus Guttesen [mailto:kometen at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:59 PM
To: Jack Toering
Cc: freebsd-performance at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Which SMP CPU for FreeBSD 6.2?

> It's been a couple years since I had to buy another dedicated server.  
> Back then the AMD Opteron had it hands down.  The trade press seems to 
> be indicating the pendulum has swung the other way and AMD is in 
> trouble, especially since the Barcelona miss.  Also, over the past two 
> years I've read how code is optimized more for the Intel.  I'd like 
> your opinion on which way to go on a new server by picking one for 
> each category.  For the same price I can get:
>
> $159.00 Range
> Dual Opteron 246
> Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
> + $30 and get Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz
>
> $209.00 Range
> Dual Opteron 252
> +$10 Opteron 2214 2.2Ghz
>
> $239.00 Range
> Xeon 5130 2.0GHz Woodcrest
> Clovertown 5310 1.6Ghz
>
> $279.00 Range
> Woodcrest 5160 Dual Core Dual 3Ghz
> Opteron 2216 HE 2.4GHz

I'm very delighted with our four-way woodcrest at 3 Ghz. It's a HP DL 380
G5. I have two four-way opterons at 2 Ghz but hz for hz the woodcrest is
(way) faster.

--
regards
Claus

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