hey ,

How about trying lower FSB Xeons? 1333fsb will OC very good with FB-DDR2800 , a 3G 1333 will rech 3.6-4G with "800" and "900" fbddr2

Any word on if the BIOS improvements will include RAM divider support?

FB-DIMM's limited OCability is whats holding all the normal 5400 and 5000X boards back when OCing with Systool so without that we'll just hit the same wall.

how much does it cost?

If you have 8 cores, why not have 1 doing audio? Sounds* like a good use of a CPU core to me.

What are people going to do with 8, 12, 16, 24 etc cores?

Are we going to see more and more monitors and virtual OSs to make use of the cores?

QX9770 is on socket T (LGA 775)
QX9775 is on socket J (LGA 771)

Nobody, 

just check it out on Wikipedia, "List of future core 2 duo processors", if memory serves.

In other words, the QX9775 is a 771-pin version of the QX9770.

QX9775 is 3.2GHz/ 12MB / 1600 / LGA771

One advantage of skulltrail is the possibility to use standard LGA775 heatsinks on LGA771 sockets.

yeah, that is the case, even though the numbering may not sound like it... N

Sorry if I missed something, but how can a QX9775, a socket 775 processor, run on a 771 socket?