On 12/15/2010 09:35 AM, Jarry wrote: > So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? > Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx?
Uh oh......don your flameproof underwear and open the floodgates.... I've not used the new six-core AMDs but I love my XII 940. And with Intel's new plumbing, my experience with the i7 seems to point to only slightly to the i7 side, as long as you have speedy RAM. I think in the long run, these two are so close, it just comes down to how much memory bandwidth you can wring from the machine. I/O is still I/O so, what else is left, really?
