[lug] more hardware opinions?

[D. Stimits]

It seems there are way more cpu types available now than just a few 
years ago, and almost all of them have gone way down in price. I'm 
especially noticing some opteron boards. I know the opterons work in 
linux, and that they have both 32 bit and 64 bit instructions natively. 
What I'm really curious about though is how opterons would compare to 
something like the most recent pentiums, or the athlons? Does anyone 
here have any experience or heard anything one way or another as to 
where opterons, athlons, and newer Intel cpu's compare on the food chain?

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net