Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
You do know that both companies you accusing of improprieties is an AMD partner, right? HP sells a crap loads of AMD servers and always has. HP turned down Intel Rebates to sell AMD servers, workstations and desktops. Then still made more money than Intel only at that time Dell. So now you're saying they're lying for Xeons to make Intel look better? HP is an Intel partner but not its yes man or sucker. Through the years they've more than proven that.
My critizism (If I had some because the first was a simple joke) is for how Anandtech presented the facts. i7 is a very fast processor, it is almost like that they have done it to be good for databases. It is a bandwidth monster. But they applaud Intel for having L3 cache and other things used to improve multithreading and in the same article they say that AMD is bad knowing that they was first with L3 and hypertransport (QPI for intel). I don't know how much more you can prove that you isn't neutral.
The facts in the article was way to sparse to do any conclusions what I think. It is no brainer though that i7 will get very good performance running databases. I also think they have some new instructions for parsing data or if some instructions have improved for this (don't remember)