Re: Best chip for Oracle AMD, INTEL, SPARC

<awatkins1966_at_googlemail.com> wrote in message news:0288f1f0-21c7-4c06-9b4d-897645510dfb_at_k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> I know you are going to say that it all depends on the O/S, but if you
> can forget that for the minute, does it matter what the CPU is when
> your are compare the Intel Xeon Quads, AMD Quads and Sun SPARC chips.
>
> Does the cache make a big difference, since you think then SPARC /
> INTEL would be best and you would never consider AMD.
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> SPARC T2 = 4 MB L2
> UltraSPARC IV = 2MB L2
> INTEL Xeon = 2MB L2
> AMD Opteron = 512K L2
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> Cheers
>
> Andrew

Are they all the same price? Smaller cache can save you bigger cash. Received on Fri Jul 11 2008 - 21:26:53 CDT