Computer upgrade

[Rik]

You really need to check whether a software package can use four cores, most can't, in fact most can't use two. So it comes back to how you use the machine as to which is better for you.

[Ray]

you have the same graphics card as me. i have 4 gig of ram (not all being used  ) and i'm looking to go quad.

I have my current intel Dual core running at 3.2 as i over clocked it and i'm umming and ahhhh'ing to go quad. is the difference massive?

The E6600 quad certainly gives a significant speed increase over my old AMD X2 4600, and the February issue of Custom PC gives it a very good write up as one of the best CPUs available at present, and it is also very overclockable, though I haven't tried this yet. I have certainly noticed a marked performance increase when handling Video editing and digital image editing.

[Malc]

I've got a E6300 overclocked at 3ghz.