My Rig - 2x Dell 24" 2407WFP A04 / Fractal Define XL / Asus P5K-E / Q6600 G0 @ 3.0Ghz - AF7 / 4GB Corsair RAM / 520W Corsair PSU / 4890PCS+ / 8TB HDD
if you can get high spec ram i think its worth it...
i've just got some ballistix pc8500 and i setup my rig and went right to 2.4-3.6ghz with no trouble @ high fsb's etc.. next month i'll get another 2gb and it'll be sick for 64bit and overclocking
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
I'll third the AAKS suggestion. It's another tenner, which works out to be a better deal per GB, on top of being faster and quieter.
Personally, I don't think that the Q9450 will be much more future proof than the Q6600. I reckon that SSE 4.1 will take at least a two years to be well utilised in games. And the Nehalem is upon us (later this year).
I agree, the E8400 will beat the Q6600 by quite a margin in most not quad optimised situations (i.e. just about everything in gaming and most other software as well with a few exceptions). If games become heavily optimised in the next 12 month (which is unlikely, it'll probably be a much slower process) then you might see that change. The other alternative would be to buy a Q9xx but they're much more expensive and still won't perform that much better in non optimised situations.
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