Re: i5-520+ - Performance

My gut feeling is that the 60/1200 will be just fine, but you should try to
do some analysis of your interactive workload on the current 720.  You
should be able to get a good enough feel by just looking at the interactive
oriented graphs available within the system monitors in Ops Navigator.  If
you are working with a business partner on shopping for the new box, alot
of them will offer an analysis to help you confirm this (ours will engage
the Midrange Performance Group, who will do a no-cost 'second opinion
service' that will help confirm that a hardware purchase is the right
hardware for the customer).

Unless you REALLY need a whole ton of interactive, the Enterprise model
will be a huge premium price to pay... this is worth doing the analysis on
instead of buying the Enterprise model 'just in case'!


                                                                       
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Hello,

we have a discussion about performance capabilities of the new i5-520+
systems.
We want to replace a model 720 with 120/240 CPW either with a 520+ Express
with
60/1200 CPW or a 520+ Enterprise with 1200/1200 CPW.
The problem is obviously about cost.
We recently added a HA package to our main system (this 720) and that added
another
8 to 10% of workload which is now more than enough for that processor.
Main application is Movex 10A, running a lot of background processes, which
would be
well suited for the Express model.
The question is do we NEED the enterprise machine or is it possible to run
with only
60 CPW interactive Performance ?
We recently replaced a 720 with 70/240 CPW at another site with an Express
i5-520+ with
60/1200 CPW and our experience was like: "WOW, what an incredible fast
machine !"
even with that smaller interactive feature.

Best regards from Germany,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Philipp Rusch


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