On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Rob Logan wrote:
well, lets look at Intel's offerings... Ram is faster than AMD's at 1333Mhz DDR3 and one gets ECC and thermal sensor for $10 over non-ECC
Intel's RAM is faster because it needs to be. It is wise to see the role that architecture plays in total performance.
Now, this gets one to 8G ECC easily...AMD's unfair advantage is all those ram slots on their multi-die MBs... A slow AMD cpu with 64G ram might be better depending on your working set / dedup requirements.
With the AMD CPU, the memory will run cooler and be cheaper. Regardless, for zfs, memory is more important than raw CPU performance.
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