Re: AMD, Intel and RAID controllers

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: alpesh gajbe <alpeshgajbe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Benjamin Minshall <minshall(at)intellicon(dot)biz>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: AMD, Intel and RAID controllers
Date: 2009-10-02 12:50:30
Message-ID: dcc563d10910020550k5e9c4e48vc57cf210e1684289@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, alpesh gajbe <alpeshgajbe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> We have a Proliant DL585 G5 with 16 cores and 32 GB Ram in the terms of
> processors we found that buying amd makes much more sense because in the
> same price we could put more processors
> on the machine and utilize the multiple cores effectively with PG

I just bought a machine with 12 2.2GHz AMD cores for less than it
would have cost me for 8 2.26GHz Nehelem cores, so yeah, I've found
the same thing. And as you go up the price difference keeps getting
larger.

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