Why release, the e6540, when theres an e6550 for the same price.
edit: Just looked at wiki, and the e6540 will not have the Intel Trusted Execution Technology and vPro support feature, like the other e6x50 processors. So it should be less than $163.
Hmmmm....the E6850 looks really nice for the price. To bad my motherboard is only 1066 FSB, would have to upgrade that. I think I'll just wait until more motheboard natively support DDR3 and the price for the new RAMs goes down. But WTH, for that price the Q6600 would own it.