Dual Core VS Dual Xeon

[tcngs]

I found this article about the comparison

 

http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=23

 

and is shows that a dual 3.2 vs a dualcore 3.2 perform about the same, but I just wanted to know if any of you had any experiance with the two different types and if there was any performance difference?

 

Thanks

[xpservers]

We switched from Dual Xeon 3.2 to Core2Quad and AMD Phemon X4 and I can confirm that we are getting better performance and resource useage with the Quad Cores. Also they are cheaper to build and use less power at DataCenters. Alot of benefits.

[tcngs]

For your phenom servers, are you using dual or just single cpu's?

 

Thanks

[jbiloh]

Single CPU, Quad Core

[xpservers]

After 2 months of experimenting with both Phenom and Q6600 i prefer the Q6600.

 

I notice with the phenom performance degration on CSS and 1.6 550 FPS servers when the peak load hits 40%. With the Q6600 i can go to 60% without any FPS fluctuation. Both boxes running the same amount of servers and hardware is very similar on both.