No offense taken....I'm actually interested in hearing everyone' opinion.
And I haven't jumped ship yet....I'm still considering an opteron route. What I really want to know is how upgradeable are the c2d vs opteron platforms.
I should probably clarify a bit. I'm rather lazy....more so than I care about the money of initial investment. I'm in need of a platform that can withstand the next 2 to 3 years of abuse. What this means is that I would rather find a platform that will tolerate easy upgrades when prices on newer components drop.
IE Will C2D platforms support quad cores directly
or Will what opteron platform will support quad cores when they are available.
I'm not so much concerned with my immediate performance gains, as I am with the consistency of being able to increase performance cheaply and easily over the next 2 or 3 years. It would appear that C2d may be dominating now, but will that be the same over the next 2 years??