Q6600 or E6850

[LiquidFlame]

The Intel price drop is coming soon and I will be building my new rig when it happens, so the question I have is which is the better choice, the Q6600 or the E6850 since both are going to be priced the same. This is the main difference that I see,the Q6600 has 4 cores, and the E6850 has 1333 FSB. Right now nothing really uses 4 cores, but in the future I think this would be very beneficial epically when games will be designed to use the multiple cores. The E6850 does kick ass for gaming, but from reviews ex: http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/i [...] spx?i=3038 the increased FSB doesn't really improve that much ~2.2%. So for me who will be using his rig mostly for gaming and not wanting to upgrade for awhile (3-4 years) which CPU is the best. I am personally leaning towards the Q6600 mainly because it has 4 cores and seems somewhat future prof when more games and applications will be designed for multiple cores. Thanks for the advice in advanced.

 

[Capt Caveman]

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[solofly]

I'm in the same boat as you and probably many others. It seems the higher the frequency the faster the gaming experience but does that matter to you...(it doesn't to me if you ask)
I don't overclock anymore but here are my plans come this Sunday, July 22. I'll we be getting a Q6600 and will be running it at 333FSB on a P35 chipset. If I need to increase the vcore to reach 3000mhz, I will drop the multiplier instead and hopefully end up at 2.66Mhz. I gotta TR Ultra-120 extreme ready to go here...