woth waiting for the q6600?

[AlexWolf]

Im planning on buliding a new system after my exams (15th June) but im not sure if its worth waiting for the price cuts.
Im getting;
mobo:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-124-AB
2gb geil ddr2 ram 800mhz
640mb 8800 gts
tuniq tower 120
antec 900
520w corsair psu

I know the q6600 wont perform any better than say an e6420 overclocked. But i use photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, ftp programs, itunes, msn usually all at the same time, and will be using premiere or sony vegas for movie editing this summer.

I really wanna upgrade as soon as i can and dont wanna wait a month to find out i have a cpu which oveclocks less and doesnt give me any advantage when using a lot of programs together.
Thanks for any help

 

[AlexWolf]

Yep ive been eyeing the e6850 aswell,though it doesnt seem to be a very big step up from the other core 2 duo cpus, although it might be more overclockable than the recent e6600s.
I dont plan on upgrading too often so i think il go for the q6600 as it should become better and better as more programs use 4 cores. I doubt id be upgrading until the Nehalem quad cores become fairly cheap.

 

[AlexWolf]

its still 50 quid when i could survive on my current system for one month and i could use that 50 quid to improve something else on my final system..
Its tempting but imo theres no point spending 50 quid on something that il use for a month, unless i can sell it on fairly quickly..

 

[AlexWolf]

ok il do that then
Is that choice of mobo alright?

 

[AlexWolf]

Lonz are you the lonz who i know from coming on the cyber games zone vent?

 

[AlexWolf]

hey mate, ive decided to just buy an e6420 and overclock a bit, i dont think i would notice a difference really between an e6850/q6600/e6420 for what i do. while it would be nice to say i have a quad core pc, by july the 22nd it would maybe only a month til the q6700 is cheaper, so id never end up getting it i just want a system that works with source, and maybe a few new games this year
Thanks for your advice, should be buying it next week.

On a side note, why has the 640mb leadtek 8800 gts gone up in price? :O