Back during the Opteron era, their chips had good compute, but higher heat output and power consumption. I use to run dual AthlonXPs on their older dual-MP boar

Back during the Opteron era, their chips had good compute, but higher heat output and power consumption. I use to run dual AthlonXPs on their older dual-MP boards back in University. It's crazy we now have 8~16 cores on a single board; on consumer (or I guess prosumer/developer) targeted hardware.