OT: Can someone help me pick out a desktop machine?

[Dave McGuire]

On 3/14/11 11:16 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>> AMD stuff is available
>> but doesn't promise the performance of a Sandy Bridge machine that
>> you probably can't buy :). Again, just don't get sucked into the rat
>> race.
>
> I keep hearing this "Intel make CPUs that wipe the floor AMDs" over and
> over again, and whilst true this doesn't tell the whole story.

   Is that actually true?  One company I run some systems for has a 
bunch of Opterons and a bunch of Xeons, and consistently I can put a lot 
more load on the Opterons before they start behaving like molasses.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL