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LOL...my current case is from an old P3 gateway oem case that I literally got off the curb, outta somebodies trash. No side panels or nothing.

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I think I need a new one

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I would suggest the Quad Core Q9300 over the Dual Core E8400. Anybody think this is better choice?

 

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Depends on what he's doing. There's not too much out there that'll make use of 4 cores, unless he's planning on doing a lot of CAD work or rendering I'd say the 500mhz drop in clock speed isn't worth it.

But that could change depending on how many of the newer games take advantage of quad cores. I'd say certainly by next summer we'll see most of the new releases able to use them, whether it'll have much of an impact on performance or not is a different question.

Most of the Intel chips overclock really nice too. I've got my E6850 running at 3.5 ghz with just a $20 Arctic Freezer 7 Pro instead of the stock heatsink.

 

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Overclocking a quad core or not, he stated that he will be using this PC for the next years worth of gaming.

 

Well it's hard to predict the future. Right now the difference between dual and quad core in games is less than 5%, even with the lower clock speeds. It's basically down to personal preference since the video card will bottleneck the CPU most of the time anyway.