Re: Quad Core or Dual Core



Bill Miller a écrit :
I am going to get a new pc soon and I was wondering if a quad core or just a fast dual core pc is best for Delphi. Currently I am running a Pentium Dual Core at 3 GHz. Will a 2.3 GHz Core 2 be faster?

Any suggestions?

I am also running a Western Digital 10,000 rpm drive but I am not sure if that makes a significant difference for Delphi?

Regards,

Bill
I don't know for Delphi but what I know for sure :

My friend has just finished the installation of a Poweredge 2950
for a cluster, which holds the main database of his enterprise.
(Mobiles Communications).

The first series of benchmarks are amazing :
the transactional threshold went from 435 to 6557 queries/sec !

Before : P4 2.8 Ghz, RAM 2 Go, 500 Go PATA RAID-1
After : Bi-Xeon Quad Core 1.86 GHz L5320, RAM 16 Go,
750 Go SATA2 RAID 0+1

Which means buying a $4000 machine was like adding 13 machines in cluster like the old one (without adding a the 20 % loss that a cluster implies) !

My 2c

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Olivier Pons
http://olivier.pons.free.fr/
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