Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:30, amka <amka@hispeed.ch> wrote:
> Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 01:56 -0600, Mark Allums a écrit :
>> On 12/12/2009 6:32 PM, amka wrote:
>> > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits.
>> > AMD or Intel ?
>> >
>> > Could someone give me please an advice ?
>> >
>> > I have actualy an AMD Opteron and the idea is, for the moment, to buy :
>> >
>> > - CPU AMD Opteron 1356
>> > - Motherboard Tyan Tomcat n3400B (S2925-E)
>> > - Memory Kingston KVR800D2E6K2/4G (2x kit of 2x2GB = 8GB)
>> >
>> > Perhaps somebody have an experience with some of that.
>
>> I guess what I am saying is, look to your application. You did not tell
>> us what you were building this machine for.
>
> Yes, I did not tell. I should, I regret.
>
> I am going to build a Postgresql server, and will execute a lot of perl
> (local) scripts in relation with the database. A lot of read/write in
> large tables (>10'000'000 rows), so I need (several) indexes... which
> have to be updated at each write.
>
> The scripts will have to do a lot of manipulations with datas.
<snip>
> But I have simply a doubt... Is the AMD Opteron a good choice ?
> I *presume* it's the best of AMD, and I wonder if Intel would be better.
Nehalem (Core i7) Xeon Review
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3536
Six core Istanbul Opteron Review:
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3571
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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