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    Comparison: E6850 vs Q9550 ??

    Based on what I could find, my cerebral cortex was sort of beginning to suspect that what you say is true, but since "9550" is such a bigger number than "6850" I was having a hard time convincing my lizard brain of that. Thanks.
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    Comparison: E6850 vs Q9550 ??

    Does anyone have any sense of whether I will see any perf increase in moving from E6850 to Q9550? Running Vista x64, 4GB RAM, no overclocking currently or anticipated. 975X chipset (ASUS P5W DH). Mostly concerned about gaming. Vid card is NVidia 280GTX I looked for benchmarks around the...