Hello,

take a look at the Intel Xeon E3 - 12XX family, works very nice and you
can get a good one for a reasonable price.

Patrik Waldmann

>>> Andreas Recktenwald 03/23/12 12:16 PM >>> 
Dear R enthusiasts, 

i`m planning to set up a new PC and consider to buy an AMD FX-8120. For 
my estimations (with floating-point data) I use the genoud optimizer in 
the package rgenoud which (at least I think) would be able to handle the

8 cores. Is anybody using the AMD proc for computing with R and could 
tell about the performance? What scares me a bit to just buy it are the 
huge amount of benchmarks on the net which tell that AMD has really bad 
performance ( especially for single-threaded apps). Would the Intel I7 
2600 be the better alternative? All the Intel 6-core processors are out 
of budget for me. 

Best regards, 

Andreas Recktenwald 

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