I thought I'd post some very interesting benchmarks that I suspected to be the case,
but never have been able to confirm it myself. These are especially enlightening to me
because of the seemingly blind adherance to Intel in the server world that we are a
part of.
AnandTech recently did a review of the new Dual P4 Xeon's. One benchmark was
partcularily interesting.
They recorded a 30 minute transaction log of their forums, which runs FuseTalk. During
the 30 minute recording there were: 105267 selects, 4984 updates, 701 inserts and 5
deletes performed on the database. They then ran the transaction logs on each of the
platforms they tested.
Heres what they found:
Dual P4 Xeon 1.7 GHZ
14m 49s
Dual P3 933 MHz
22m 34s
Single P4 Xeon 1.7GHZ
22m 31s
and the shocker
Single AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz
18m 6s
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1472
Considering the huge price gap between a dual P3 and a run of the mill Athlon this
seems incredible to me.
My only comment wuold be, the next time you throw money at a problem. You might want
to throw it in the right direction!
I cant say how many times, the Intel drones in this industry have questioned me when I
in passing mention that I only use AMD chips. It just comes down to price for me, but
now I can stand on firm ground and tell them to go waste their money!
Of course, someone will eventually try to pull the reliability card. It will be of no
use, I have had ammo there for a while now.
jon
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