Burnsie

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Dual 2.2 Ghz Xeon processors vs. AMD Dual Core?


Which is faster? I know that the Xeons have a slower FSB (400 mhz I think), but I wasn't sure about AMD's FSB in those cores....
 

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Dual 2.2 Ghz Xeon processors vs. AMD Dual Core?

Which Xeons? Old or Woodcrest? Don't even consider the older pre-Core models. And for what purpose? For rendering Woodcrest kicks ass, but web-serving benchmarks are neck-and-neck (GamePC has benchmarks).
 

Burnsie

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I can't find anything saying what core it is, but here are the specs on the processors.

PROCESSOR TYPE : XEON
CLOCK SPEED : 2.2 GHZ
L2 CACHE SIZE : 512 KB
FRONT SIDE BUS : 400 MHZ
ARCHITECTURE : INTEL NETBURST MICROARCHITECTURE
TECHNOLOGY : 0.13 MICRON
FORM FACTOR : INT - MICROPGA
SOCKET TYPE : SOCKET 603
PLATFORM : PC
FEATURES : HYPER PIPELINED TECHNOLOGY (HPT)


As for what it's uses are gonna be: A little bit of everything. I am a photographer, so I do alot with pics, but I also dabble in video. I don't play many PC games. I'm in college, but I work for my cousins IT company, and I will be doing work with remote servers and I know as far as calcs go, the Xeons fly.
 

General

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Its a pentium 4. Your "high end" server Xeon is older than my 4 year old northwood. Upgrade for gods sake.

Use woodcrests or opterons.
 

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Ok here is what I have found to be true. Transcoding a large video file through Real Producer two 3.2ghz xeons are faster then an opteron 275.

So 3.2ghz Intel is faster then a 2.2ghz Operton for transcoding by about 10%. And a dual Opteron 275 is crazy fast once add RAID to the mix.