Past July22 When will we start seeing E6850s, etc on pcs for purchase?

It's past July 22nd now, and I was wondering when we will actually start seeing the E6850, E6750 on pc's, namely Dell, and also when we will actually see the price drop on the Q6600 to 266.00. I've had 2500.00 bucks burning a hole in my pocket for months now, waiting for the new processors/price drops and was planning on buying an XPS 410 or more likely it's successor, the XPS 420, on that date, but the processors are not to be found anywhere on a pc yet. I would think Dell would have been gearing up for July 22nd, the release date, and would have gotten ahold of the processors earlier to that date and been doing compatibility testing and building their new pcs with them to make them available on that date, but I guess not. Anybody have any speculation on when we will start seeing them on pcs for purchase, namely Dell? I've been waiting 4 months for July 22nd to come, so I can make my purchase, and it turned out to be just like any other day. The XPS 410 should be due to be replaced anytime now, it was released back in July 06' and Dell usually replaces their models once a year, and with the new Core 2 Duos coming out, it would make sense that the time is now. Plus, the XPS 720 just came out and the new Inspiron desktops; the only thing that hasn't been replaced is the 420... Anybody got any speculation?

Yeah, it seems like the processors on Newegg, and other such places have been floating about 30.00 higher than the expected release prices. I think those prices are for retailers per 1000 quantity, or something like that. we probably won't ever see those true prices, but they should be close, i would think. I'm just ready to be able to buy them on a system...They need to get it in gear, it's hard to wait much longer, lol

I didn't have any trouble just now. just saw that they have the 6850 for 345.00, yikes. may'be i was wrong about the 30.00 above expected release prices, lot more than that! You're right, though, i think we should start seeing them on pcs before the end of the month. Dell usually releases their new stuff or has price changes on Thursdays, so I'm gonna wager on this Thursday for Dell. Plus, it's the back to school season right now, people are going to have to start ordering the pcs for their kids going off to college if they haven't already done so, you'd think the retailers would want to tap into that back to school market with the new pcs/processors?

The world is full of enough dipwads who buy without researching first, who won't know about the price drops, so they can get away with with that type of hooie, but for people in the know, it ain't happenin'. I don't order from Tiger Direct cause they charge like crazy shipping charges. I buy alot of stuff off of Buy.com because they are usually much cheaper than retail and don't charge tax and rarely shipping. United Package Smashers, lol. They smashed up my new Xbox 360 Elite a coupla weeks ago, waiting on the replacement...B@stards

Well I ordered my Q6600 from mWave on Sunday night right after their price went from $273 to $279.

When I did ordered the CPU, mWave included a $10 discount because it had been a while sense I had used them last.

Hell if I had known this I would have bought the CPU earlier in the day when I first saw the $273 price, and before shipping my price would have been $263, under the $266.

The price drops take about a week or two to reach full effect in the retail market.

The new lower wattage Q6600's come out next month, so if you can wait and you want a hopefully better overclocking CPU, get one in Aug.

This is where I found some good info.
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showt [...] &t=559208& highlight=quad+Q6600