AMD or Intel?

[Alfred Perlstein]

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.



-Alfred

* Palle Girgensohn <girgen at pingpong.net> [070910 03:16] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only postgresql, 
> a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we plan on using it 
> as the OS.
> 
> We have an offer for an IBM server, x3650, with 2 * DC Intel Xeon 5160, 
> Raid with two clusters, one for database and one for xlog. Loads and loads 
> of RAM.
> 
> Now, I hear rumors that AMD is to be preferred over Intel for performance 
> reasons. Any comments on that? Are we better off getting AMD processors, 
> when running Unix?
> 
> Regards,
> Palle
> 
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- Alfred Perlstein