a person how start to participait on hwbot is alwaise a rookie.
even if he/she start whit a dual , 4 or more socket system.he/she need a place to start and ther is the rookie league for
the best thing thad masterpwnerbob can do is disabel points "if his cpu's ar from the new gen".i don't know how he/she have found the opteron es cpu's, i think ebay
edit: the Opteron 6272 " Bulldozer microarchitecture " have a introduction date of november 14, 2011 so its a old gen and es from older gen can have points.
the new gen ar 63xx opterons whit Piledriver microarchitecture and have a introduction date of somware in 2012