Fast Dual Core or slower Quad Core..?

[Oliver Falk]

On 04/26/2007 10:51 AM, Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 26/04/07, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
>> On 04/26/2007 10:31 AM, Glenn Steen wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>> > Personally I still like the DL3X5 variants better, but that is neither
>> > here nor there (oh how all the Intel fans will bash me now:-)
>>
>> Don't want to flame war here. But actual benchmarks showed me, that
>> DL380 is about 30 % faster than a DL385. OK, it was an Apache Benchmark,
>> but however...
>>
> .... Yeah, I know. It is a tighter race these days, with Intel more
> often than not winning the day. You compared machines of "equal" age
> and resources?

Yes. Both where bought in the same month... :-) I don't remember the 
exact Ghz any more, but both where 'state-of-the-art' dual-core, 
dual-processor with 4 GB memory.

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