[LAU] New processor purchase, AMD

[rosea.grammostola]

On 12/05/2010 09:36 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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.
>    

AMD seems to be more opensource friendly?

\r