Well today I got a new processor, an Opteron 165. I’ve been watching the trends lately to see what models of the dual cores were doing well and recently its been the 165s. And I knew what steppings were doing the best. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, steppings are a code on the CPU that refers to the week manufactured and the fabrication plant it came from (as well as other info). Many people were getting good results with 165s with the 0610 DPMW stepping. So I took a chance and ordered a 165 from Monarch Computers and guess what shows up:



Time to swap my best 3800 X2 out of my main computer (“Project SR-71”) and see what this sucker will do! :P