AMD Opteron 165 and 180 processors @ The Tech Report

I'm working on building a sweet Opteron system and choose the 148 (2.2Ghz) 940 processor, Looking back the dual core would have been a better choice but I couldn't seem to let myself go below my Mhz barrier, (even if on paper its faster)
"This change has most likely provoked a whole other bundle of pyschological issues—namely, an identity crisis. Take the Opteron 180, for example. With 1MB of L2 cache for each of its two CPU cores and a 2.4GHz clock frequency, the 180 looks for all the world like an Athlon 64 X2 4800+. The main difference between the two? The name, pretty much. Now, that doesn't make the Opteron 180 a bad product—far from it, in fact—but it may never escape comparisons to its Athlon 64 doppelganger."
On the 939 front I'd be all over the slower dual cores and then overclock the sn0+ out of them.

Related Web URL: http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/opteron-165-1...