Quote Originally Posted by iddqd View Post
The 3GHz CPU was obviously multiplier-unlocked, which makes it much easier to overclock in any old board..

IIRC, at launch, Opteron was only doing 1.8GHz, which of course was nowhere near as fast as 3.4GHz Xeons/P4s... oh, how the things changed a few months later. So, it's still too early to tell. Maybe they'll be able to compete with 2x2-core Pentium-M chips.

Also, I think their reverse-HT gambit might pay off to improve IPC on a single thread, once properly supported by the OS and enabled on the chips.
Reverse-HT???? Are you kidding?