AMD's are burstable while Pentiums are steady! That's a new one on me.
Actually the P4's net architecture is called Netburst. Maybe it's more
burstable now? lol
I run SQL Server on my AMD system at home and have none of the problems you
speak of. The test results actually refute what you are saying...
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: Benchmarks
> What I mean't was actually encoding the video straight from the tape
to
> hdd. Using realProducer or windows media encoder. For serving out the
> video that is different. What I was going to get at is that the AMD chip
> speed seems more burstable while the Pentium chips are consistent. Kind of
> like DSL. For example try running AMD chips on a SQL server vs. a Pentium
> server. The AMD server might respond sometimes faster on queries but
> othertimes very slow, it might even look like the server has locked up at
> certain times. This can make troubleshooting the less expensive server
very
> difficult. On the other hand the sql server with the pentium chips will
run
> very consistently with the queries, even if you get enough traffic to set
> the processors at 100% the machine would not appear to be locked up. I
put
> down video encoding in my first response because I believe that is the
> easiest way to measure processor performance.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 12:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Benchmarks
>
>
> > I would agree that if you need to do lots of live video encoding for a
> web
> > site, a P4 is probably by far the best solution. I current have a site
> that
> > handles 10 live encoded asf streams on a Dual P3 fine though. It's not
> > hurting yet.
> > However the majority of us do not encode video on our web and database
> > servers which is why I posted to CF-Server, not a video editing list.
> >
> > I think though the biggest place I'd notice the difference is my
> pocketbook.
> > A $2000 machine beat a $8000 one. I think I'd wait that extra few
seconds
> if
> > I ever encoded some video.
> >
> > jon
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:31 AM
> > Subject: Re: Benchmarks
> >
> >
> > > I promise you that you can tell the difference if you are doing video
> > > encoding.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:14 AM
> > > Subject: Benchmarks
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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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