Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well I would certainly prefer 2 or 4GB ram on a new system.
Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance, but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB in my desktop at the moment, and that's useful for when I'm running VMWare, but that's about it. Most of the time, it's just being used for disk cache.
As for AMD, well when they come out with the quad, assuming it does what they claim it will do, then they will probably be back on my list of recommended parts.
I think I must have gone to sleep for a couple of years. When I was last looking at Intel vs AMD, "they" were saying that AMD's architecture was much better than Intel's, because (I think this is right) for communication between cores, the AMD doesn't have to go off-chip, but Intel's architecture requires use of the external bus, and AMD's design just plain scaled better. Or something. Then fast forward to today, where apparently Intel's Core 2 Duo is apparently kicking the pants off AMD... how did this happen? Is Intel really all that much better?
Also, I only really hear comparisons between the Core 2 Duo and Athlon. How about Opteron? Is the Opteron still a good choice for servers? Or has Xeon leapt ahead there too?
Sorry for the ignorance. I don't pay much attention to hardware stuff in between computer purchases. Last time I really looked was in 2005 or so.
Thanks! /Neil