That is what I have decided to doAnd I am waiting outside in the rain....(in my FSX simulator)so they had better hurryallen

Good choice! I don't think they will cost that much more and I wouldn't be surprised if they actually release some of them in time for the holidays. I'm curious to see the price of the i7-2600 or better yet, the i7-2600K (unlocked multiplier). There is so much to look forward to right now! New processors (LGA 1155 and then LGA 2011 in late 2011), new Microsoft Flight. I read somewhere that the LGA 1155 processors are supposed to run ~10% faster clock for clock. We'll see what transpires for flight sim.

I'm hoping that FS11 will be multicore & SLi Capable, and all of us guys with our OCd i7's will be maxing out every single slider and still have it crystal clear and ultra smooth with frames well above 40 at detailed airports.

I'm hoping that FS11 will be multicore & SLi Capable, and all of us guys with our OCd i7's will be maxing out every single slider and still have it crystal clear and ultra smooth with frames well above 40 at detailed airports.

And I used to envy a little kid in England who had a P4 800MHz monster when I still had a P2Warp Drive or Hard DriveNow on my science sites I'm reading about quantum computing and graphene based chips with the speed of light using photonic crystals. To understand the later you have to understand the Maxwell Equations and things like eigenvalues...No more electronics? Photonics now.yeppersallen

Good choice! I don't think they will cost that much more and I wouldn't be surprised if they actually release some of them in time for the holidays. I'm curious to see the price of the i7-2600 or better yet, the i7-2600K (unlocked multiplier). There is so much to look forward to right now! New processors (LGA 1155 and then LGA 2011 in late 2011), new Microsoft Flight. I read somewhere that the LGA 1155 processors are supposed to run ~10% faster clock for clock. We'll see what transpires for flight sim.

I thought the 'reasonably priced' Sandy Bridge processors won't be overclockable in the way we're used to overclocking. They may provide 10% more performance on stock clock, but what about a comparison with a Lynnfield at 4GHz?

True - those are the two big unknowns everybody is waiting to hear about: price and overclocking ability. I'm not going to speculate specifically on costs, but my gut feeling (for what it's worth... nothing) is that the new 1155 chips won't be crazy expensive by any means. Consider they will be releasing socket 2011 just a few months later (LGA 2011 is supposed to be the true enthusiast lineup), AMD will be coming out with bulldozer, and I think the market isn't willing to spend much or any more than what CPUs are already priced at. LGA 1155 is supposed to be mainstream, sort of like today's i5 chips, so I don't anticipate prices to be too much higher than i5 prices. Then again, I don't remember what i5 processors cost when they first came out - probably alot more than today's costs.Concerning overclockability - I'm just hoping the i7-2600K is reasonable enough in price to take the plunge - that way I can still overclock. Otherwise, I'll be waiting to hear first hand reviews of the i7-2600 performance and whether or not it can overclock. Perhaps motherboard manufacturers will come through with a means to overclock them.Perhaps we should bury ourselves deeper into our flight sim hobby until it's no longer speculation - time will pass quicker.