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An Intel-igent choice?

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Belles Toaster

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Hello, I am trying to fiqure out what to do withan odd collection of parts. Currently an asrock 4core dual vsta with an e4400 arctic cooler 7 HSF and 2 gigs of pc5400 corsair XMS cl4. I have a gigabyte P35 DS3R mobo ,another 2 sticks of the same ram and an enzotech extreme-x HSF. I want to buy a Q6600 or am I now better off with an a wolfdale over an another allendale ie e4600 for the gigabyte. I currently do 70% applications and I thought perhaps doing the gigabyte with 4 gigs of ram and some more overclock with the better cooler would reduce the need for a problematic Quad. The new 45 nm CPU's look interesting with their higher cache. (I could set the asrock mobo with pc-3200 ddr with the old e4400.) Any opinions, as to cheap route or smart route. Thank you.
 
What do you mean you do 70% applications? What is the current setup not able to do that you would like it to do?
 
I need to do a lot of multitasking and the current setup would limit it to about two chores at once. (burn a disk ,watch web episodes of tv shows,etc.) I have a C: drive for programs and a e: drive for data. Whereas a single core would stop any other activity. The machine becomes an entertainment system for the kids. I figure there's two much on it and have re-moved kids files to keep the free space >66%. I figured more push is needed. (70% applications referrs to video card lingo i.e 70% appz 30% games.) Some people told me don't waste your money on an other dual core from the 65 nm families and move forward.
 
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