AMD vs Intel memory managemement

[keith smith]

Hi,

After that great thread on 32bit vs 64bit, I was wondering if it would be beneficial at this point to drill down to the CPU level : AMD vs Intel.

We had a great thread a while ago the AMD CPU, however I do not think that thread covered memory management.

I almost went for an AMD CPU this go around (I have a couple from prior purchases), however after hearing that AMD does some weird memory management at the core level, assigning memory by the bank to each core, I thought I would go with an Intel CPU.

If I understand this correctly, It sounds like under some or most circumstances the server will lose a portion of the total memory because under AMD RAM is assigned at the core level and bank level.  I assume Intel uses memory as a pool.  Need memory just grab some until it is gone. 

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

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Keith Smith
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