It is interesting that Dell appears to be back to its old habit of “customer be damned”.  I started the following thread on the Dell Community Forum, Tech Talk, XPS about support for the Intel Penryn Yorkfield, Wolfdale, and Harpertown versions of the new 45nm processor. 
 http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=Tech_Talk_XPS&message.id=20427 
There has been excellent discussion and a great learning experience [...]

Well, we finally got the Ramp Spec Labs extreme cpu chiller up and running, and decided to push our L720B G0 Q6600 (our best clocking quad sample to date) to see how far it would go.
The Ramp Spec chiller uses a regular Swiftech CPU waterblock, but for cooling purposes runs a mixture of 1/2 distilled [...]

This is just a post of some other happenings at IDF in San Francisco.
Benchmarking World records were set today, as a penryn under the control of the world renowned overclocker known as Fugger blasted a superpi 1m run in under 9 seconds (8.4 to be exact), and also set a new cinebench WR (which I [...]

Check this out:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3101
And of course, come to the Rampant Speculation forums to speculate:
http://forums.rampantspeculation.com/viewtopic.php?t=39

You’ve probably heard by now that DDR3 is “the next thing” in desktop memory.  We were lucky enough to get some of the precious stuff here in the Rampant Speculation laboratory this weekend.
First off, what’s different about DDR3? 
The main thing is speed.  1066 Mhz is high end DDR2 memory, with a few companies offering hand-picked sticks warranted at 1131 or a little faster.  That’s fast.  [...]

Check it out:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-9800-Series-Coming-Soon-62786.shtml
 Discuss in our forum here:
http://forums.rampantspeculation.com/viewtopic.php?t=29

Last week, we published the results of our first test of the new “G0 stepping” Q6600 processor:
http://rampantspeculation.com/2007/09/05/22/#comments
The first sample we tested, from batch # L723A, achieved a maximum stress-stable overclock of 3.6 Ghz (9×400) at an incredibly low cpu voltage setting of only 1.38 volts.
This week, we have another G0 Q, from batch # L720B.  [...]