Virtualization speed king: intel xeon westmere 5620 vs AMD Magnycour 6134

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two similarly sized 2P systems from HP: 48GB ram, 300gb 15k SAS ESX 4.0 is s/w but choice of AMD 6134 gives 16 cores vs Intel 5620's 8 cores. Both almost at same CPU Clock 2.4 GHz for VM workloads of medium size which is best bang for buck/perf? workloads : mostly Windows VM guests thx in adv

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