[Cialug] Slightly OT, .. AMD vs. Intel

[Dave Hala Jr]

I used to be an Intel only person on the server side. About 4 years ago
I bought some dual cpu quad core dell servers. While Intel usually has
better performance in the 3rd party reviews, in practice I cant tell the
difference.

I'm generally a year or two-ish behind what the mainstream is. That
seems to be where the value is. I'm also not so cutting edge that I can
justify paying a premium for the absolute high-end hardware. My
applications just aren't so resource intensive that I require it.

Secondly, on the desktop I cant tell the difference either. For now, I'm
sticking with AMD due to the value. I just switched over to a quad core
AMD workstation and its been working extremely well for me. It runs w7
and Virtualbox with  4 linux guests.

:) Dave


On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:31 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> We have long favored the underdog AMD, .. but they seem to have fewer 
> and fewer offerings in built systems. Seems like for the price of a 
> quad0-core AMD you get a dual-core i3.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with real performance differences? Is 
> the Intel premium that high (i.e. dual core vs. quad core), or is 
> Intel that much more powerful?
> 
> 	Lee
> 
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