Good results with E6420 i'm borrowing, get Q6600, wait for new 45nm quads or?

[BoostFrenzy]

Stay with this?

i'm doing 3200mhz on stock cooler with good temps (Coretemp beta) @ 1.40v 400*8, any reason to not just pay for this one and keep it or will a quadcore at similar freq be that much quicker playing games, ripping movies and looking at pr0n?

 

[Dew]

Stay with this?

i'm doing 3200mhz on stock cooler with good temps (Coretemp beta) @ 1.40v 400*8, any reason to not just pay for this one and keep it or will a quadcore at similar freq be that much quicker playing games, ripping movies and looking at pr0n?

Ripping movies, no. Encoding from DVD to avi/mp4/ipod/etc, absolutely.

 

[troisanh]

Stay with this?

i'm doing 3200mhz on stock cooler with good temps (Coretemp beta) @ 1.40v 400*8, any reason to not just pay for this one and keep it or will a quadcore at similar freq be that much quicker playing games, ripping movies and looking at pr0n?

no reason to upgrade but if the occasion arises, just make sure mobo supports the new chips.

 

[chrisf6969]

dual core at 3+ Ghz is plenty for now. Unless you're encoding a lot of video, AND the application you use can use all 4 cores. Then its worth it to get quad, but everything else dual core does a good job with a lot less heat & power.