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Q6700 or E8400 ?

Q6700 will give you similar performance to the E8400 in apps that only use 2 cores and much better performance in apps that use 4 cores. The Quad also wins when you want to run lots of apps at once.
 
Yeah. People say always go dual core for gaming, but I'd rather have a better spread of performance in everything than an extra 5fps in games.

Regardless, this topic has been discussed to death. Use the search :)
 
If you are doing any encoding etc then I reckon the E8400 is still worth considering as it has the SSE4.1 instruction set, the Q6700 does not.

Not saying the Q6700 is not better for encoding but its still worth throwing into the mix.
 
I'd go for the E8400 of the two really. Cooler, faster clock for clock and only slower at the few applications that actually use four cores. Go for the wolfdale.
 
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Go for the quad, I use a Q6600 @ 3600, and a E8600 @ 4500, my comp of choice to use is the Q6600, just a far better all round computer :)
 
Used to have a 8400 running at 3.6GHz (could hit 4GHz but at 3.6 could use lower than stock voltages) and have just replaced it with a Q6700 which is currently running at 3.5GHz.

Have to say i've noticed things run smoother and quicker in windows and although there is a small FPS drop in Counter-Strike Source (I mostly game and CSS is very CPU biased) I think I made the right move.

If your going to overclock (which you should do with a Core 2, should be a rule) then i'd go with the quad. Ok you won't hit 4GHz but then again you can have 4 cores running at 3.3/3.5GHz which will run pretty much anything at the moment.
 
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