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Can't decide on CPU upgrade

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Right boys (n girls) I was thinking of treating myself to a nice new shiny CPU, so browsed into the CPU area of the store and starts looking...sorting on price right hmm two weekly offers for about the same money...

This Week Only Offer
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM£129.99 £125.99 (£148.04)

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail This £129.99 £124.99 (£146.86)

...arrrgh I don't know which one to pick so help me decide please.

Some info on my current system Asus P5N-e SLi mobo Ram OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)

Thanks for all your help guys.
 
Yeah I guess the quad and pump the fsb up a notch would be nice. With a quad is almost tempting to start doing some distributed crunching again :)
 
I will go with the E8400 as I don't use much that would take advantge of 2 extra cores.

Thanks for all your help.
 
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