On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:08:04AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > Robert L Cochran wrote: >> I'd like to build a quad core machine for my wife, either AMD or Intel, >> but quad core. What motherboard and CPU combination will yield really good >> performance? >> >> Bob Cochran >> > > 1st hand: Gigabyte 965P-DS3, Q6600 (Intel), 8 GB of RAM. *FAST*. However > .... I am using it (under FC7) in runlevel 3 (as a poor-man's server), so > can't comment on gfx performance, etc. We also have a Gigabyte P35-DS3 at > work, runlevel 5 w/ FC7, 8 GB RAM, but a mundane gfx card (nVidia, > PCIE-16X, 32 MB RAM, 6600 (I think)), works AOK, *FAST* CPU. I like AMD > fine & dandy, but right now Intel has 'em for raw speed/performance .... AMD beats Intel hands-down in power consumption, though: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/16/nnanda_benchmark_amd_and_intel_quad_cores/ 41% less watts (when idle) is much better than a few percent more speed in my book. Of course, if you're crunching numbers day and night, it might still be worth to buy Intel. Regards, R. -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- amd64-list mailing list amd64-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list