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Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job

Subject: Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:48:08 -0700

Intel and AMD regularly trade off the title of "fastest cpu," sometimes so quickly you'll miss the hand-off if you sneeze. Advertising and enthusiastic reviews not
withstanding, "beating the pants off" as it applies to
cpu speed comparisons usually consists of a margin
somewhere in the area of under 5%. Unless you're
sequencing DNA, solidifying massive 3D point clouds
or runing some other operation that will be crunching
numbers for hours at a time, the odds are you will never
notice the difference.

My choice for my own (personal) system was a dual
processor AMD Opteron, because AMD has laid out
an impressive upgrade path that enables a single-
processor Opteron board to be upgraded to dual and eventually to quad core processors with only a BIOS update.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>

No personal experience there, but most of the reviews I've read say
that Intel's Core 2 Duo beats the pants off anything AMD has/had, in
terms of improved power efficiency and less heat dissipation. I don't
remember about the price/performance ratio, but I think it's pretty
close there, too!

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References:
Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Johnson, Tom
Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Al Geist
Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job: From: Edgar D' Souza

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