So i work on a charter boat that does private parties. Last week we did an event with a bunch of techies on it. I had overheard some of them talking about upgrading their companies cpus to dual core. So i came back around later and started to talk to the guys with some idle chit chat. Turns out one of them was a aprticle physicist at Intel. Seeing as how i was entertaining the idea of switching to a conroe i talked to him for a little bit and this is what i gathered. Firstly, Intel has working 8 and 16 core cpus ready to get shipped out for testing, but that they aren't going to release them for a while because they don't need to. It doesn't seem like they are gonna ramp core speeds like they used to, when its easier to just add more cores. Conroe production is going for well and he said they would probably have a surplus at launch. Lastly, that if I really wanted to o/c a conroe you need sub-zero cooling. Anyways that's it for now~