On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, alpesh gajbe <alpeshgajbe@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance