Quote Originally Posted by bacon612 View Post
Will we though? I have been an AMD fanboy since the days of k6II. I am now wanting/needing to upgrade but am waiting for fresh benchies and pricing of Deneb. If it fails to impress (which has quite honestly been the AMD trend lately) i will do the logical thing swallow my pride and get the base nehalem offering since I am already needing a new board, ram and cpu.

For the sake of a competitive market, i hope we get pleasantly surprised here. But personally, i am not expecting anything spectacular.
get the 3.0. go big or go home . also i saw this today: http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/081112/business_us_intel.html intel just letting everyone know that they are going to be making less money this quarter. they blame it on the economy but i think theres a little something else to it as well.