Now or Nehalem?

Not exactly pointless. The new motherboards and chips are going to be expensive. If you are building now, or in the near future, theres no reason to not still go socket 775, if you don't want to break the bank. Socket 775 is still better than AM2+.

So the consensus is a, "wait-and-see" approach?

The new architecture is still untested I guess.

in my opinion i think nehalem will lower pricers and its coming in a month or so..

i think it will be wiser if you waited cause its a win win situation if you did...

Nehalem under 3.8ghz @ = 100% Sure to be 35-40% slower then Pneonm 9950 BE AT 3.0ghz which is a huge failure
a epic fail for gamer appeal but even intel said they didn't seek gamer appeal or so but people still gonna buy it and be deceived else they wouldn't be already Tri-channel memory kit & after market cooler for nehalem
it a wait and see if nehalem doesn't get better with several Revision we have to wait westmere & sandy Brdige gamers
why go back to slower performances it not logic. i was really shock to see the pre-benchmark it was not appealing at all
i first tough wow 8 core will surelly pwn 2 core. at such high frequacny 2.6 / 2.9 / 3,1GHZ but all wrong. all wrong !marcthpro

link plz.

il try to find it it got removed the one on hexus il look it was showing that in pre-benchmark you can see it if you registred Trgouh CBPCU my union where Rayvinazn / LORDEC911 / Wesker776 / 9mmspliff & Wklzip & searchmaster reside
and hundred of member :) fell free to join usmarcthpro

The link from Hexus got removed but luckily i was able to take a screenshot of the benchmark when i brought the news ;)

source: Nehalem gaming performance.

Scroll more to the right to see the Phenom numbers.

Also that was the first Nehalem benchmark that got leaked on the internet.

how do you know its not false?? i mean a phenom vs i7??Tqure

Compare it will the Nehalem Full Review, and the QX9770 @ 3.2 vs core i7 @ 3.2 (OC'ed) are pretty spot on.

And Hexus is a respected source.

You could wait but if you go on waiting forever you'll never upgrade your pc.

il try to find it it got removed the one on hexus il look it was showing that in pre-benchmark you can see it if you registred Trgouh CBPCU my union where Rayvinazn / LORDEC911 / Wesker776 / 9mmspliff & Wklzip & searchmaster reside
and hundred of member :) fell free to join usmarcthpro

What do you have now?X360PS3AMD05

I do not have a gaming PC now, which is making this decision difficult.