If you read any of the previews of the Q9770 yesterday, you'd have noticed that Intel's newest chip sports a 1600MHz FSB. Not too shabby, indeed, but in order to take advantage of that boost, you'll need to buy an X48 chipset-based motherboard. Where does that leave all of those X38 owners? Pretty much in the lurch, I'd say.

"In the end, we are left with two chips that do exactly the same thing with one bullet point artificially changed. OEMs now must stock multiple SKUs, must have multiple variants of the same mobo, and most likely pay more for the added 266MHz. What a mess."