LOL, believe me, we all want one....

I'm tucking away pennies for one as well.

i think i was reading on some chinese web and they are talking about how intel is giving euro people early release for the i7 980

so will this chip finally bring down e8600 in 01? at 6.3ghz or so it should without ht correct?

Very excited for this. Though it will be sad to say good bye to this i960.

These chips will own spi32m wont they? low low 6's maybe even 5m59s

It's a sad day for me, as much as I wanted to snag one of these I will have to pass. :(

Yea me neither Dr. ........... not right away anyhow

Hoping MC gets some and sells them uber cheap like they did with the 920's

Have not seen a recent road map but am hoping for a 6 core = to the 920 ....

Popularity is the deal at the bot so these will not reap big boints hardware wise for a little while ....

Globals are in serious trouble though with out one of these chips in your rack.

Maybe I can sell some stocks on down the road to get one. :thumbsup:

As I do not plan on buying anymore Extreme CPU's from Intel, been burnt to many times I am going to pass on those.

I suggest to hang out a bit and see how these retail chips turn out, batch numbers that are good etc.

I keep remembering how the 965XE rolled out, then later the 920 which was a much better value and OC'd better, then the 975XE. All that in a pretty short period of time. My 965XE dropped in value so much so fast its not funny.

Won't there be like 2 versions anyway, Extreme and Non Extreme ?

I have two full i7 set ups ... I would hate to part with one but may have too

But EX chips I have never owned one and never will ......

Just not worth it ..... IMO

Yeah I agree with that, after buying 4 extreme cpus LOL
I guess if you go that route, buy the Extreme and Bench it fast, then resale as quick as possible. You will lose some $'s but don't sit on them for to long.

IIRC, there will be, but not until this fall. :ohcrap::thumbdown: