Conroe looks more impressive all the time... Check out the benchmarks at the link... What's really interesting is their headroom for OCing... Up to 4GHz without too effort... And the pricing is amazing...

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2771

Never thought I'd be lured away from AMD, but...

If your looking to upgrade for BOB you might as well wait till it's out, prices for today's hardware will be less by the time we can get the new flightsim. I'll admit I'm tempted to upgrade as well, I'm still using a p4 2.8, would love to get one of the fast amd64 chips with a couple gigs of ram, pci express video card, etc etc. But I know patience will pay off!

NO ONE will buy an Athlon from Q3 and forward unless going for a budget deal. Those Conroes will sweep the floor with AMD... My latest three CPU's have been AMD, that will change this winter when it's time for an upgrade. To bad we will have to wait for ATI and Nvidia to get their DX10 cards to the market before going Core 2 Duo

Damn, I love the free market... Just think of the years when it was Intel that dominated the market and AMD popped the Athlon. It sure feels good to have them back to put some pressure on AMD... The king on the hill must always go.

I agree somewhat....my last few cpus have been AMD and I'm looking forward to the release of the new Intel Conroe cpu. I'm sure AMD is working overtime on its new K9 cpu but there are rumblings that its a real dog.

Actually, I try to hold off upgrading till at least 1 year AFTER my favorite flight sim is released...

Actually, I try to hold off upgrading till at least 1 year AFTER my favorite flight sim is released...

I usually upgrade before to insure decent initial game play. The hard part is picking the platform that will provide the most upgrades without having to rebuild the whole system. It can be an expensive way to do thinks but at my age its the only vise I have left to waste money on.

I will have to wait and see - I refuse to throw money at BoB right away when my current rig can run Fb/Pf just fine.

What if there are probs with BoB? What if it is optimized for Win.Vista and lags in 32bit?..or has other unforseen glitches.

Even though my faith in Oleg and crew is substantial, there might be some tics that will take time to correct.

Besides - 1c Maddox always designs their software for long run use...so no one will be able to get the very best out of BoB for a while after release so a few frame rates, one way or the other isn't worth a completly new rig....at least, not to me.

It will be hard - but I guess I'll force myself to wait as long as I can before building a BoB rig.