Tatty_Two
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That's not funny. If you read what I said you could have answered that question urself.
Yes, if you overclock the Quad-Core you will get better performance in the 1 or 2 games out that actually use more than 1 thread.
But first of all, you won't be able to overclock it above 3.4Ghz, unless you want to wait for a month till you can find the G0 version and then u may be able to get to 3.6Ghz.
Secondly, even if it was overclocked to 3.6Ghz, at this time, this would ONLY give you a performance imporovement over the 4.0Ghz E6750 in Lost Planet, which is at best, a crappy console port that you wouldn't be able to play well anyway. And EVERYTHING else would play a hell of a lot better on the E6750.
And thats beside the fact that buying the Q6600 now makes NO sense when you can get Yorkfield and overclock it to 4.2Ghhz and have twice the threads as the Q6600 AND 12 MB of cache. Not to mention u can do all this on the same motherboard as the E6750, so upgrading couldnt be easier, be it a 680i board or a P35 board.
It's true though, that waiting for X38 may be a better idea for some people. But it will only be launched after the summer is over so..
Your facts are flawed in some area's I am afraid. In no particular order, The G0 stepping is quite readily available, perhaps not to everyone yet but if you care to check the Q6600 thread in these forums you will already see about 12 TPU members with G0 stepping Quads. In the same thread, and the 3D Mark 2006 thread you will see that some of those are capable of 3.9Gig on air! You refer to the "one or two" games that are multithreaded, I wont bore you and everyone else here with a list of multi-threaded games available today but to give you a hint, this post would be Very long if I listed them all (I think 29 at last count) and if you want to add those games that have since been patched for multithreading then add another 16, feel free to PM me if you would like the list.
Next, MANY current boards support Quad, 1333FSB etc etc, mine for instance and it's considered a budget board so whether it a Quad, a 6750 or whatever does not require an upgrade, perhaps just a BIOS flash. Lastly If you want to see some performance differences you only need to look again at the 3D Mark 2006 thread, look at the league tables, the No 3 NVidia score was acheived with a Q6600 @ 3.3Gig the No1 ATi score was acheived with a 6600 @ 4.1Gig......go to the screenshots in the thread that posted the scores....you will see that the CPU score for a Q6600 @3.3Gig is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than the CPU score for the dual core @ 4.1Gig......cause even what is now a fairly old bench is multithreaded, so it will use 2 cores if you have them, or it will use 4 cores if you have them.
I happen to agree with a fair amount of your logic in your post but my point is that some of your arguments in support of that logic is flawed IMO.