QwertyManiac said:
??
I dont understand, wasnt Opteron launced long ago by AMD ?
they were 940 pin, and required different mobos/ registered ECC RAM etc. etc.
opterons for s939 were released recently, which means you can use them for your desktop s939 PC, with unregistered+non ECC RAM.
the s939 opterons are apparently great overclockers, so it makes sense to buy a somewhat higher priced opteron instead of a similarly performing Athlon64