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AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Nehalem
We are looking at switching some of our servers from AMD Opteron Barcelona quad-core processors to the new Intel 5520 Nehalem processors. These are both 4 core CPUs, but the Intels utilize hyper-threading, so the OS sees 8 cores per CPU. It wasn’t that long ago that the first thing you did with a hyper-threading-enabled […]