Troy Dawson said... |It really comes down to your application. If possible, try it on two |comparable CPU setups, one AMD and one Intel. I've seen some wildly lopsided |tests, try to at least give them the same amount of memory and the same disks. |Then run your application on it, and see which is faster. | |That's how I decided I like the Opteron. On my tests (recompiling rpm's) the |Opteron beat the Xeon. But I saw other people with the exact same setup, and |for them the Xeon beat the Opteron. It all came down to the application. And that can change over time. For years we bought only AMD-based systems, because most of our apps consistently ran better on them. Then we found a couple that were decidely better on INtel. When we tested equivalent servers for the last set of compute farm systems, Intel won hands down. -Miles