Intel E8400 or E8500?

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Advice needed lads about to upgrade my CPU soon so which way would you go I'm mainly a gamer will be also be putting it under water once I know what CPU and GPU card I will be using. I was looking at the E8400 "Wolfdale", is this a better buy than the higher clocked E8500 for this board or should I wait for the Q9450 to come back in stock. I use photoshop and some video stuff, but like I said gaming is my main thing

 

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My current E6600 has the following on the retail box it came with:

Box numbers
Product Code: BX80557E6600SL9S8
FPO#: L629B475
Version#: D63625-002

Temp readings in Everest:
CPU 33
Core1 25
core2 24

What board and memory you using now Hesky?

 

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Some good pointers lads....... so when are we gonna see the E8500 "Wolfdales" back with normal prices. Also any ideas when the Q9450 are gonna be back on the shelves?