Hosting: AMD or Intel?

[jerzeemedia]

Anyone have bad experiences with AMD and/or just prefer Intel processors? Just curious.

[ModelToday]

AMD is cheaper and faster....

Whats best? Now you can get Opteron processors in the socket 939 variety.

[sfera]

i prefer amd but intels are still nice

[directfiesta]

got both ... AMD cheaper.

[whatelfuckwasmypw]

At the moment, AMD definately has an advantage.

[Amnesic]

I would have to vote for AMD, I love my new turion

[WZRogeR]

I think Intel

[Shinjiro]

AMD all the way, baby!

[Jim3k]

of course INTEL!

[minusonebit]

They are both about as good as each other. Both about as reliable as in mean time between failure. I have never noticed a difference in performance, and one or two points on a benchmark in a lab isnt likely to make a significant impact in the real world.

[BillyParadise]

Sun Fire

http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/

Got one on order for the day job... we'll see how she performs.

[BillyParadise]

(yay! finally get to post links.... only took me 20 months to get over 30 posts!)

[everestcash]

+1 from me for amd, they're as good as intels these days, but cheaper

[Radiate]

AMD Opterons are more powerful than the Xeons for most important things, especially mysql.

Sadly not enough providers are offering AMD solutions at the moment I think.

[DesignWise]

Intel .period

[Choppa]

I sell both brand processors in Australia. Both obiviously have their pro's and con's. AMD's are always cheaper than Intel, yet big business still hits toward Intel processors. intel still have a far bigger share in the server market also.

[usbhosting]

Intel, all the way.

[QTbucks_Mark]

AMD Opterons are more powerful than the Xeons for most important things, especially mysql.

Sadly not enough providers are offering AMD solutions at the moment I think.

"More powerful" is an understatement. After switching my providers first MySQL server from Xeon to a similar Opteron system (running in 64-bit mode) they couldn't believe I actually transfered all databases to the new server until I pulled the power from the old box.

Since then, every single MySQL box deployed uses Opteron CPUs.

They also decided to use Opterons for their webservers, as there is only a minor price difference between the Intel and AMD versions of their servers, but I currently don't have figures at hand comparing performance for this task.

[MaxV]

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