[LAU] New processor purchase, AMD

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Ivan K <ivan_521521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My thinking is that for multi-core 64bit, there are less expensive
> than intel.  Am I wrong about this?  What multi-core intel 64bit processors
> are people buying?
>
> --- On Sun, 12/5/10, rosea.grammostola <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Why AMD? Just interest...
>>
>> \r

In the last year:

Two i5-661 - 2 cores, 4 threads (4GB DRAM)
One i7-820 - 4 cores, 8 threads (8GB DRAM + 2 disk RAID1)
One i7-980x - 6 cores, 12 threads (24GB DRAM + 3 disk RAID1 + 2 disk RAID0)

The Intel processors seem (to me) to be more power conscience lately.
Don't forget to add up the incremental cost of electricity over the
next few years running a processor without hyper-threading if you go
that way. You might be better off spending a little more up front to
save a lot in the long term.

- Mark