[LAU] New processor purchase, AMD

[Folderol]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:47:41 +0100
"rosea.grammostola" <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

That's the impression I get too. I also don't like the way Intel was trying to
squeeze them out either :(

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