SQL Server 2005 - Itanium or Xeon

Server Products

Data Center Products including boards, integrated systems, Intel® Xeon® Processors, RAID Storage, and Intel® Xeon® Processors

SQL Server 2005 - Itanium or Xeon

1,270 Views

Hi,

We have a new database server that has 4x2 IA64 Montvale CPUs.

This was supposed to replace a 4x2 Opteron Santa Ana 1218 system.

The Database is (and was) CPU bound rather than IO bound. The new server (after tuning by HP) is delivering 25% less throughput than the old one. The DB is small enough to fit in memory (32GB) in both cases...

Should we be looking at a 4x4 7400 series Xeons instead?

Thxs, Chris

Link Copied

0 Replies

Community support is provided during standard business hours (Monday to Friday 7AM - 5PM PST). Other contact methods are available here.

Intel does not verify all solutions, including but not limited to any file transfers that may appear in this community. Accordingly, Intel disclaims all express and implied warranties, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, as well as any warranty arising from course of performance, course of dealing, or usage in trade.

For more complete information about compiler optimizations, see our Optimization Notice.