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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, tom wrote:
I only buy Intel if there is NO other choice.I buy what suits the system at the time. Currently AMD are lagging in terms of performace per watt - and that's something that very important right now. (with the exception of the Geode, but they didn't design that initially)
I you want performance per watt then surely ARM is the only way to go!
There's a trade-off between bang per buck/bang per watt and usability.Right now there isn't a server solution based on ARM or I'd be using it today....
However, it's coming: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1527209 2GHz ARM ...But what I want is a good solid processor with good software support and no overloaded/bloated graphics hardware!
Your average LAMP server doesn't use much CPU at all - it's mostly IO - stupid CPU usage like decoding SQL instructions is about the most it's going to do - until the muppets decide that resizing icons on the fly is a good idea though )-: Had a server crippled by that recently until they installed some caching. Weenies who never did any computer science - "Oh, it's slow, lets throw more hardware at it". <mutter> And get off my lawn while yer at it!
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