All I know is the old server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 32Gb of memory and a Clock Frequency of 1333Mhz and the new server is a Dell PowerEdge R710 with 48Gb of memory with a Clock Frequency of 6400Mhz. I am not sure what all that means though, except for memory. From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 12:57 PM To: Jeff Chirco Subject: Re: 2 CPU Dual Core vs 1 CPU Quad Core Jeff, Do you know the processor model number? We recently migrated an HP DL585 G2 to a newer Dell Blade where a pair of dual cores (running RHEL 4U8 x86-64) was moved to a single socket, quad core Intel blade. Old server had an on-die memory controller, 16 GB memory in total - likely 533 MHz. New blade has 48 GB DDR3-1333 MHz memory. I believe that this processsor only supports 2 memory controller channels (per socket). Processor is Intel Xeon X5667 3.06 GHz quad core. Paul On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jeff Chirco <JChirco@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:JChirco@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: I was wondering if anybody else has any experience in performance testing a 2 CPU Dual Core vs 1 CPU Quad Core. We need to swap out one of our Windows database servers to a quad core because they are not making the dual core anymore. Let me know if you have any information. Thanks in advanced. Jeff -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.completestreets.org/faq.html http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/pamanual.pdf -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l