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