Comments on: Deciding What Processor to Choose for SQL Server 2012

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:25:37 +0000

The E5-2637 v2 is an excellent choice when you want the lowest possible physical core count and highest base and turbo clock speed.

This blog post from six weeks ago lists the five best Xeon E5-2600 v2 family processors:

http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/selecting-an-appropriate-intel-xeon-e5-2600-v2-family-processor-for-sql-server-2012/

By: Jose Teixeira

Jose Teixeira — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:20:36 +0000

It’s been 1 year and I’d like your opinion on some recently released processors, when going for a small number of licenses.
Been doing some research and got to this:
For 8 core licensing, two E5-2637 v2 processors seems to be outstanding.
For 12 core, this family still looks very good – two E5-2643 v2 processors.
With an eye on Hekaton, their 768GB max memory size (384GB using cost effective 16 GB memories), still makes them look good for not so big databases (up to few hundred GBs).

Thanks for your great posts

By: Adithya Kalyan

Adithya Kalyan — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:56:27 +0000

Thanks for the post. We seem to have made the right choice. Might be missing DELL here.