On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:47:41 +0100 "rosea.grammostola" <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/05/2010 09:36 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Ivan K<ivan_521521@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> My thinking is that for multi-core 64bit, there are less expensive > >> than intel. Am I wrong about this? What multi-core intel 64bit processors > >> are people buying? > >> > >> --- On Sun, 12/5/10, rosea.grammostola<rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> Why AMD? Just interest... > >>> > >>> \r > >>> > > In the last year: > > > > Two i5-661 - 2 cores, 4 threads (4GB DRAM) > > One i7-820 - 4 cores, 8 threads (8GB DRAM + 2 disk RAID1) > > One i7-980x - 6 cores, 12 threads (24GB DRAM + 3 disk RAID1 + 2 disk RAID0) > > > > The Intel processors seem (to me) to be more power conscience lately. > > Don't forget to add up the incremental cost of electricity over the > > next few years running a processor without hyper-threading if you go > > that way. You might be better off spending a little more up front to > > save a lot in the long term. > > > > AMD seems to be more opensource friendly? > > \r That's the impression I get too. I also don't like the way Intel was trying to squeeze them out either :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
