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Intel QUAD core vs Intel DUAL core... which is best suited?

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Björn Dieding@xrow.de

Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:03:50 am

Hi,
I like to gather some opinitions.

We have a website with rather lower traffic but an imense complex pagelayout. When we clear all caches the server needs like 5 min to recover on 9 siteacccess with one cache dir.

I was wondering if one could give an estimate on rather we should use a dual core with 3GHz clocking or a QUAD core with 1,6 GHz clocking as our next hardware.

My estimate would be that a dual core would improve our situation more as a quad, since apache might be faster processing a single thread when having a clocking of 3GHz.

What do you think?

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André R.

Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:48:22 pm

Since it's not multithreaded, the dualcore should be a lot faster. Probably cheaper to?

Also consider the AMD Opteron platform, they don't have plans to change their new socket any time soon, so a socket f / 1207 should last way into the quadro era and possible further. Also while Intel has cached up a big bit the last half year moving away from the Netburst (pentium4) architecture, AMD is mostly still the king of price / performance / watt.

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Björn Dieding@xrow.de

Tuesday 21 November 2006 6:53:35 am

ty thats what I thought too

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