Re: [Xen-users] Question about the AMD Vs. Intel debate...

[Thomas Harold <tgh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> I'm looking at the sub $200 range (so the core 2 duo 6300 or the pentium D
> 940 or the athlon X2 4200 windosor core).
I wouldn't consider the Pentium D 940 to even be an option.  There are 
the new low-wattage AMD X2s coming out soon for AM2.
Beyond that I doubt you're going to get any hard numbers.  Word on the 
street is that for a particular price point, AMD vs Intel is pretty much 
a wash in terms of performance.  At the upper-end, I think Intel 
currently has the lead, and it's a shame that AMD had to drop their 
prices to bring price/dollar back in line.  (But I'm not gonna complain, 
no siree, I like $150 X2s!)
I've got a few test systems up an running on AMD X2 at the moment (Asus 
M2N-E motherboard) with 4GB of ECC DDR2, 4 750GB SATA drives + hotspare 
running in RAID10.  Some systems are only RAID1 with 2 disks and a hot 
spare.  And it's performed fairly well (as with all newer chipsets, 
Linux support can be a bit tricky).
I just wish the quad-core AM3 chips were out because another 2 cores 
would've been a good idea in those systems.
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