INTEL hardware replaced by AMD for SAP BI7 & MS SQL, any performance factor

Hi Everybody,
As we have INTEL hardware for our BI 7 & MSSQL server, recently we have reinstalled the app servers on AMD hardware (Here we have changed only Hardware, other factors are similar to earlier setup).
Now we are looking at performance factors which will need to look in, so could you please advise what are the parameter ( relevant to MEMORY or PAGING) need to fine tune.
Component Version: SAP NetWeaver 2004s
Application: BI 7.0
OS: Windows 2003
Database: MSSQL
Please let me know if you need any more information...
Thanks in advance.....
Sridhar

Hi,
There is no difference in Intel & AMD. See the below note
Note 931024 - FAQ: 64-bit platforms for Windows
814834 Windows 2003 SP1 x86_64 Support for SAP releases
Thanks,
Shambo

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