Quote Originally Posted by pokipoki View Post
It's a real pity that Opterons can't be overclocked due to lack of motherboards. The cost-effectiveness of the platform is of great value, especially to advanced home users. Socket longevity, more cores for lower prices etc. I'd be willing to pay more for a multi-processor Opteron board with overclocking abilities. I'm sure most duallie fans will do the same. Maybe we should setup a poll to measure the consensus?
Opteron is targeted at commercial server applications. It would be extremely expensive to support the consumer market so that will not happen. I have gone through the economics on several forums, but let me dispel the two biggest myths quickly:

1. There is not a "huge market" for server parts in consumer environments. There are definitely people that will want to do this, but it is a very small part of the market.

2. It is not inexpensive to "just add support". Essentially you are doubling a lot of the back end costs.

I would never stop a consumer from doing this because it is my job to sell more processors. But I would warn that if you go down that path, you won't see the level of support that you will see on Phenom and other consumer brands.