New CPU

Ok, My question is this. I have been waiting for about a month for the Intel price cuts to come out and its finally about to happen. Now my question is this... should I buy the Quad 6600 for $266 or should I get the 6750 for the same cost? My board supports the P35 chipset so its not a problem with the 1333fsb but I am running pc6400 for memory. Would that matter at all? I am basically looking for the best performance possible for none gaming. Just using it for tons of multitasking.

Ya, I just bought a 500 gig SATA 3 WD drive so its not the top of speed chain by any means but I plan to add about 8 more of these in the future but the 750gig or 1-Terabytes. they will all be at the same speed though. I just cant seem to spend 300 on a drive that only has 160 gigs on it because it has super fast read and write times.

There is alot of hype about the quad cores being so great and maybe they are, but very few programs will utilize all 4 cores and 4 core use alot more power than 2. Quads are a waste of money if you're not going to use all of it's potential. However more and more programs are starting to utilize 2 cores, so maybe it's more with your money to get the dual core instead. 2 core will probably OC farther anyway because they don't produce as much heat. To give the quad core a little more credit I will have to admit that when a program does use all 4 cores the quads RULE. I guess it all depends on how long you intend on sticking with a peticular CPU. If it's gonna be more than 2 years I'd go for the quad. If you're only gonna keep it for a year I'd get the e6600 with the G0 stepping after July 22nd and OC the hell out of it. If you're like me and you're gonna keep it for about 2 years I'd get the e6750 and OC it after a while to keep up till Penryns are cheaper or till the next best thing comes out.

If the rating function were still here, you'd have gotten five stars from me for that post. The hard drive is the single slowest device in the entire computer- even the average NIC is 30-50% faster than a single hard drive. I very highly recommend putting in a fast disk subsystem. I went from a 74 GB Raptor for the OS + a 250 GB 7200 rpm unit for data to a setup of a 74 GB Raptor for most of the OS, a 45 GB RAID 0 stripe across three 250 GB HDDs for temp and heavily-accessed but not critical OS stuff, and the rest of the 250 GB HDDs' space in a RAID 5 for data. The performance of my computer is *far* greater than it was before.