Re: CPU

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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:30:58 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:

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> On 12/03/07 21:27, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:
> >> On Monday 03 December 2007, Tom Allison wrote:
> >>> is there much of a difference in performance between a XEON, dual
> >>> core from intel and a dual core AMD 64 CPU?
> >
> > Well honestly, with how cheap you can get a quad core from Intel...
> > I say do that :). The general difference between a dual core
> > opteron and a dual core xeon will likely not be noticeable to a
> > PostgreSQL installation (generally speaking).
> >
> > However, the two extra cores (even if slower), will greatly help if
> > you have any kind of concurrency.
>
> Are there any heat/power considerations? An Opteron will most
> likely draw less power, generate less heat, be easier to cool and
> thus generate less noise.

Its a server... why are we worried about noise? Heat... well yes but
what you say below :)

>
> Of course, the heat and whine from those 10K and 15K SCSI drives
> will override any possible Opteron CPU fan quietness.
>
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