Quote Originally Posted by hoom
500GHZ of doing nothing useful is not all that impressive.

Lars, it seemed like you were talking about a dual Opteron but then you were calling it a 4*4 so you know

Hmm, rumor has it that AMDs AM2 processors will be able to use 'anti-hyperthreading' to get a single thread to somehow run split over the dual cores.

Quite how this works & whether it will actually produce usable improvements is yet to be seen, a bunch of people seem to think its pure bunkem but others seem excited.
And the only differences are going to be the socket (939 instead of 940) and the CPU that goes into it (Athlon 64 X2 and FX) and no EEC ram. Really all it's going to be is an affordable version of the Opteron stuff. So I feel comfortable saying I've worked with it.