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)
