Brad Bendily wrote: >I haven't really kept up with the suit, so I can't comment >on it's validity. Choice is a good thing, but is AMD's prices >really that low? > Yes, and if you want 64-bit support, doubly yes. We're standardized on Dell as well, so unfortunately that means no AMDs for us, but if they were available, we'd buy AMD-based machines wherever it was cost effective. I'm using a Precision workstation with a Xeon processor and it's fast, but the machine also doubles as a space heater:
# cat /proc/cpuinfoprocessor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 3 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 3392.066 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6733.82 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 3 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 3392.066 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl
