"This prolly should end up as a sticky, but that's up to the mods.
1.) I was informed today by Avnet, AMD's Tier 1 distributor for their processors, that AMD was cracking down on sales of s939 Opterons.
2.) This essentially means that only smaller ISVs (Integrated Service Vendors), VARs (Value Added Resellers), and System Builders would be allowed access to AMD stocking of these processors.
3.) Newegg, et al. will be effectively removed from the OEM processor sales of s939 Opterons. My district manager did not specify if this was also the case for retail procs, but he did emphasize that Newegg would not be getting these parts.
4.) AMD will be drop shipping all Opteron s939 parts. This is part inventory control and part screening. AMD has to approve each company/person for accessing these parts.
so, word to the wise: get 'em while you can. it's going to get a LOT tougher now.
dave"
From Dave Graham @ Hard OCP
Link:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=985873
Opterons are gonna dry up and it will be real hard maybe impossible to get them.