I knew AMD was on the right track back when i built a 4 CPU Opteron (64cores total) server for physics sim and one for number crunching (Comsol and genetic sequencing) and started doing the math on the core/thread count relationship to perf. It took them a few years but man did they deliver. I just wish I had invested in them.
Can't wait to build a beast as my Valve Index VR rig.
Those Opterons were terrible which is why AMD was practically giving them away at low prices. They only got on the right track five years later when they ditched that architecture.
Very true, they had a fair share of issues, but it showed the different direction they wanted to head which I agreed with. One of the biggest issues was I could only get the quad cpu boards from two manufacturers and they were very hit or miss mb's. (at it was mb's that exacerbated the issues of the opterons)
Can't wait to build a beast as my Valve Index VR rig.