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E84/500 or Q6600?

tbh, with a good clocking 6xxx there is no real reason to upgrade anything untill the next socket comes out! Save yuor money in the mean time.

Clock that 6600 some, and you'll get a nice bump in performance. As mentioned, most games are GPU limited, but with that GTS you might be able to use some extra CPU clock cycles.
 
I'm debating the same right now.

While it's true that Crysis will bottleneck on the GPU before the CPU, the same isn't true for most other games currently out there.

Assuming you don't bottleneck on the GPU then currently an OC'ed E8400 will outperform an OC'ed Q6600. Let's also not forget that the 8xxx series is next generation compared to the 6xxx. SSE4, more cache per core and a higher FSB will all contribute towards gaming performance.

By the time quad core capable games are out, the 6xxx will be superceded by the 9xxx quad cores (also offering improved cache per core, FSB and SSE4 on a 45nm chip).

So if your only concern right now is gaming, save yourself a tenner and get the 8400. If you're interest is encoding etc, you'd probably be better off waiting two months for the 9xxx to drop a bit and grab one of those.
 
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