Based on the assumption that what they mean by saying "Quad Xeon" is 2 Xeon processors with Hyperthreading turned on.
That may or may not be a good thing as some applications have shown to perform worse with hyperthreading on.
I would personaly choose the Dual AMD Single Core Opterons.
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