Thread: AMD Opteron? or Intel Xeon

Well just to see how you people go for server should you decide to
either get a new one or further expand your hosting business. Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron?

Opteron tends to use less power than Xeon. However, Xeon will have more performance over Opteron.

A 4-socket server will either be a 16-cores Opteron or a 24-cores Xeon.

Xeon Dunnington which will be coming out later half this year will include 6 processing cores per chip.

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I prefer intel, every 'amd' server I was ever on I found to be much, much slower than the intels.

Somehow I prefer the opteron based on past usage.

i dont use anything but intel for server home comps laptops backup servers the lot, you get more for what you pay

its like peice of mind in a chip

i prefer amd however everyone has there own tast

I lean towards the Xeons. Specially now with their new Core 2 structure.

I found this review of AMD Opteron vs Dual Xeon, hope it will help

tomshardware.com/2003/04/22/duel_of_the_titans/

Performance will beat electricity bills, if you are going to resell or anything like that.

The choice depends on what sites are hosted in the servers and number