Perhaps this is old news, but damn, Naples/Epyc is looking great at first glance: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/int ... the-decade (sorry for the link to Anand)
Better power efficiency than Intel? What the what? Sure, it's ill suited to some workloads due to the oddness of cache latency and inter-core communication...but holy jeebus.
I cannot wait to get my hands on the test boxes showing up at work in the next week or so. I/O monsters for sure with memory bandwidth to spare if you don't need high concurrence between many threads.