Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, from an typical SME view (mostly workstation and fileservers) I don't really see an performance difference worth thinking of (as already stated, there're lot's of other bottlenecks, like storage IO). AMD tends to win this battle by price, but Intel tends to be a bit more rubust: I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: price/performance still favours AMD. How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed) Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 234€ Intel® Core 2 Duo E4700 134€ (not boxed). --

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Grant wrote: | I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating | AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much | faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys | think? | | - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Walker
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed) Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 234€ Intel® Core 2 Duo E4700 134€ (not boxed). There is no equivalence there in terms of actual processing power. The best buy on the market for

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: price/performance still favours AMD. How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed)

[gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Grant
I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant I work at the

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or an application

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? -

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:44 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 22. März 2008, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? price/performance still favours AMD.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Grant
I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or an

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. AMD has had better engineers than Intel all the time. Intel just had the money. A few years ago the CIO from Intel advised engineers to be more creative. So AMD will stay ahead of the pack and if they find the right way (actually they're going

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: price/performance still favours AMD. How on earth do you justify that statement? I am an AMD fan and have been since the 486/133 (was a Cyrix fan before then) but I can certainly tell you that the performance of the Intel Q6600 makes the AMD Phenom 7600 look