[Discuss] Next AMD FX-8120 update

[Richard Pieri]

On 3/18/2012 11:20 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> That's great, but my point was that if the machine is going to be
> deployed as a mail or web server, those are the types of loads you want
> to benchmark with.

True enough.  But then, the typical mail or web server tends to see very 
spiky load patterns and it tends to be I/O-bound rather than CPU-bound. 
  At that point you should look at seek times and IOPS and possibly I/O 
cache rather than CPU performance.  You should also look at how your 
data is stored since that can have more of an impact on performance than 
the hardware.

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Rich P.