E6850 vs Q6600

[Shmee150]

I will never understand why some would be willing to pay nearly double the price for a 200mhz difference in speed, it boggles one's mind.

I can't either which is why I'm questioning whether there's more to it than I realise!

I'm thinking Q6600

[kungpo]

Go for it. For £150 it's a worthwhile upgrade and is massively better than a Dual Core in any processor intensive tasks. After 4 or 5 hours of getting one, I can see an improvement in the performance already.

Don't forget that you can OC the processors quite easily. I'm sure that a q6700 will OC equally as well, would you really see a difference of under 10%. And when the clock speeds get to 3Ghz or higher, the difference will become neglible I'm sure.