Q9450 or Q6600

[WillSpengler]

At the price difference is the Q9450 that much better than the Q6600?

I've heard the Q9450 can't be overclocked as easily or as well as the Q6600.

I'm putting a new system together, but it will only need to be for the next 12-18 months as when the nehalem processors are avalible, i'd like to make use of them (should be a big jump in power ).

Sorry if this is a daft question, just a newbie here!

 

[WillSpengler]

Hmm, well im leaning more and more towards the Q6600.

Would this give a big difference over my current processor which is a 3.0 Ghz P4 prescott core?

(obv getting a whole new setup aswell, new mobo, 3 gigs of ram, 8800 GT, new HDDs (2x160Gb raid0 and 2x500Gb raid1) aswell as sata optical drives)

 

[WillSpengler]

the difference may depend on what you are doing.

if using it for word, then i doubt it will be much difference. however if encoding, you should see a massive difference

I realise that

It will be used mainly for recording audio and games. (well, will be used for word etc too, but that isnt going to be any faster )