So in need of some opinions please. Im building a "cheapish" pc looking at spending about £400 I am only buying, memory, mobo, cpu and gpu. I am looking at the following CPU's the E6750 will overclock to 3GHz (same as the E6850), I know there is a debate of the E6850 and Q6600 BUT as the E6750 is £50 less it sways it further.

To give you an insight of what I do:
Dual screen setup so run TV on one screen (or dvd) while having outlook, messenger, internet browser, and encoding a DVD. I occasionally game as well, AOE3, nfs:c, HL2 etc (single screen 1280x1024 32bit on each screen)

Setup im looking at:
MSI P35 Neo2 -FR Mobo £76
OCUK X1950 Pro 512MB DDR3 GPU £82
Geil 2GB PC6400C4 DDR2 RAM £64

So its just down to which CPU is best. There is £50 difference between the two and I have taken into account the E6850 and Q6600 debate its just down to the additional price difference. One FINAL consideration I would consider buying a 45nm Quad core at a later date and use the saved £50 at a later date.

SOrry to be a pain but im a student so every penny counts! LOL

Cheers all

Look at it like this, if you get the E6750 then your getting the new stepping G0 so you know your OC will be great. If you get the Q6600 you might end up with the old stepping B2, anyway theres no huge difference between dual or quad core right now in games. Use the extra $50 for a new game.

CPU £119 http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_ [...] 355acf4cf8
mobo £67 http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_ [...] 355acf4cf8
RAM £60 http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_ [...] 355acf4cf8
Total £246 and you could get it for about £216 if you are prepared to do some e-haggling.

E6850 and Q6600 comparison :

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/i [...] i=3038&p=8

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