I'm going in for a new build and I can't decide between the Intel Q9550 and the AMD Phenom II X4 955.
Now, the Phenom is rated as good as and even better in some cases than the Intel but the Q9550 has more cache I think.
However, the Phenom costs $189 vs the $219 for the Q9550.
Is $35 Worth Getting i7 920 Instead Of Q9550?
Please thorw in your opinion on this..
Core i7 920
6GB DDR3
OR
Q9550
8GB DDR2
(Everything else the same)
When the i7 costs $35 more than Q9550, will you choose the i7 or Q9950? Is the extra preformance that i7 has worthy the extra $35?
One's a desktop chip, the other a specialised server one.
In terms of performance, will there be a big difference between the pair? I know the Q9950 is a cheaper processor but there isn't much difference between them on the cpu benchmark Website.
This is what I was told by ThePlanet:
As for the quote you wanted for the core 2 quad Q9550, that is slightly less powerful than the xeon 3360. We do not offer desktop grade procesors in our servers, that would be misleading to our customers. Same as the RAM we offer, we offer ECC fully buffered RAM, not desktop grade.
This is a huge difference between providers like The Planet and other mom and pop shops you see around the internet.
I don't know if this is the right forum, but someone asked me which processor is better:
Q6600 - 8 MB cache - 4 x 2.4 Ghz
P9500 - 2 MB cache - 4 x 2.2 Ghz
Off course everyone will say the Q6600 now (i know that myself), but the Q6600 server has 4 GB ram and the P9500 server 8 GB. What would be the best choice?
it is for VPS hosting. In my opinion the P9500 is better.
Im serach Server Dedicated, 4x CPU, Core2Duo or Phenom, min. 8gb RAM, localizaction: EUROPA!!
Traffic unlimited or min. 2000/month.
I have a decision to make about hosting.
I have 2 offers for the same monthly price.
Option A - Xeon X3220 quad core
Option B - AMD Phenom 9600 quad core
Everything else is comparable RAM, disk, bandwidth etc