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For myself its upgrade time again and no matter how much I look around I cant seem to get any straight answers? I currently have a E6600 oc`d @2.8 and its been fine for about 9 months now! I have got some money to spend and was thinking of upping my CPU? its between E6850 or q6600 go . I mostly play cod4 and have read that it uses all 4 cores on a q6600? but to be honest I cant find any answers on whats going to be the best on gaming and maybe overclocking on aircooling?

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Corsair 4gb ram
8800gts 320
E6600 @2.8
700watt Psu

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The E6600 is an excellent processor and I fail to see a good reason to why you would want to upgrade that since it can be overclocked very well. Just hold on till the new revision of Phenoms and the new Penryns come out. If I were you I'd just hold off till Nehalem comes out.

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You're fine. You don't need to upgrade. Is that extra 2 or 3 FPS really that important? If so then upgrade your GPU.


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The best answer I could give from my point of view, is that it could be interesting to take advantage of your high PSU, and make an SLI with another 8800GTS card (requires SLI mobo).

The CPU you've got is more than you will ever need these times. Think about CPU in the next year or so. I'm doing that with my A64 x2 4200 which is quite inferior to yours but despite that, its serving me very well.


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Ok thanks for the advice chaps! I will wait a bit, but that bloody money is burning a hole in my pocket lol


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