Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
maybe fugger can tell us about the CPUs......i know they are in the wild but not sure who's got any heh
Yes that would be nice, but we know better than to ask since the people that have them here likely didn't find them on eBay (thus NDA'd).

I have noticed that Penryn ES chips are not available through other channels, and unless I'm mistaken, the Conroe ES chips were here a bit earlier in the year. So whereas Conroe was released around July 27th, I would expect Penryn to be Oct/Nov timeframe. I still have my money on Intel getting to retail before AMD with Barcelona/Agena, but earlier in the year I would have expected Penryn retail chips by July/August. Oh well.

I'll keep waiting for that awesome day when I come to the forums and there's a topic in the Intel forum titled "Penryn ES first benches!" or something.