haha, yeah right dude.. Although a high-end dual core processor will run marginally better than my Q6600 in most games, that really doesn't mean shit. No game, not even Crysis or Far Cry 2, can utilize 100% of two (or really even one) of my processing cores.. and I'm running at totally stock settings.

As it stands right now, this thing runs SUPER COOL.. sub 40 degree temperatures under stress. Prime95 doesn't even raise it much higher than that, and I have stock cooling. I could EASILY get it up past 3GHz without breaking a sweat.

Not only that, but in a few years, my Q6600 will outperform that E8500 as games start to take advantage of quad-core processors. I don't care what anyone says but my ~12GHz of usable processing power will beat the crap out of your ~6.3.

I'm happy with what I've got. xD

and as far as I can see, my 9800GTX was the best I could get for the price.