I've been waiting to build my pc for about a half a year now and I just cant wait any longer. Anyone know the release date for this? Does it make scene to just buy something now with a mobo/ram that will be compatable with the penryn?

Right now these are the things I have....

2 x PNY 8800GTS 512MB
2 X 150GB WD Raptors
1 X 1TB WD External Drive
1 X Fatal1ty X-Fi XtremeGamer
1 X Logitech MX5000 (Keyboard/Mouse)
1 X Dell 2405
1 X Case

Just look around, everyone is talking about it. The dual cores (Wolfdale) are starting to trickle into retailers. Look for them here in about a week. The mainstream quad cores (Yorkfield) are still a few months off from what I hear.

Duo Core Penryns (Wolfdale) => January 20th

Quad Core Penryns (Yorkfield) = > Most likely March '08. If not later.

Best as I understood, there is a quad-core Yorkfield already out, the QX9650, though it costs about $1200. Just the thing for the rich and famous.

Okay, to be more specific, non-extreme versions of Yorkfield.

I recently spent $1,200+ for my monitor, I don't want to spend another $1,200+ for a CPU.

Neither do I. I'm not a member of the rich and famous crowd yet. Still waiting for that winning lottery ticket. So I guess we'll wait for Yorkfields in the price area that the rest of us can afford.

i heard yorkfield was around mid february to early march

If AMD doesnt show signs of a pulse soon, the new yorkies may be out in the next decade.

Hard to say. Intel announced a few weeks ago that it was delaying some chips because of lack of competition from AMD. http://tomshardware.com/2007/12/19 [...] _problems/

So I would guess March or later, as Jaguarskx noted earlier. Intel is not in any need to produce the chips earlier, as there is no present competition from AMD, and may in fact delay them in further. Its one of those things we won't know for sure until it happens.

Here is a follow up to my post. I don't know if I should post it here but any input would be helpful.

Dell is running this deal, which you can see on slick deals....
Dell EPP XPS 420: Core 2 Quad Q6600, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, BluRay Reader/DVD Burner, 512MB nVidia 8800GT, 15-Months AV, Vista Home Premium $936

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=715067

Now my question is.....

I have a few questions about this system.

1) I don't think I want the Vista on it, which comes with it. Now, I know dell is tricky with their window installations and you cant put your own on there, but if I get rid of their 500gb hard drive that comes with it and use two 150gb raptors sitting at home would that work?

2) The mobo that comes inside this, if I sell the 8800gt that comes inside of it, can I fit two 8800 GTS?

3) I have an Aduio X-fi Gaming card would this work for it to?

The reason why I ask all this, I was going to wait for the penryn but I cant wait anymore. I have two 8800gts a few hard drives and audio card. I was thinking of just buying my own Combo CPU/Ram?mobo but this deal might be worth it. Any in punt please let me know.

I would recommend Evga models over the PNY models for your video cards.

Ok, I owned a Dell some years ago and this is based on that experience.

1. Changing hard drives and the OS should be no problem. The new OS should recognize and install most of the hardware. If needed, you can get necessary drivers from the Dell website. It might be a good idea to go to the Dell website on you present computer and loading the needed drivers to a CD beforehand, so you don't have to waste time later looking for them later.

2. Depends on if Dell's mobo accepts two cards, otherwise it should work without problem.

3. I installed an Audigy in mine without problem.

I should stress that just because I didn't have problems with these thigns doesn't guarentee that you won't. Also, be aware that you will void the warrenty on the Dell if you do it.

I highly doubt you'll be able to run those two video cards in SLI on that Dell. In fact, reading the linked post says that Dell uses P35 motherboards for that model so that means that absolutely NO you will NOT be able to use your two NVidia cards in SLI in that Dell machine.

Oh man I cant use the SLI in there, that stinks, that basically sums up my answer about getting the xps