Possible upgrade, please provide feedback

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Gawd
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I'm currently using a core2duo cpu overclocked to 8x400, and noticed today that microcenter has the Q8300 on sale for $89.99. I'm wondering if getting this cpu will be a noticeable upgrade at all. I'm hoping I can overclock it to 3.0 without too much trouble. I'm trying to hold out on upgrading my entire system as long as I can, as money is fairly tight at the moment, but $89 is doable. Granted, it's probably bad coding, but Black Ops is running pretty crappy for me at the moment, I'm hoping adding two more cores will help out. Any thoughts?

Please ignore my sig, too as I haven't been active on these forums for a while, I have an evga 260 with 216 cores and 4gb of ram.
 
Looks like a sound upgrade to me. And yes, BO does like the additional 2 cores.
 
I think it will make your overall performance increase, especially for future games, so I'd go ahead and do it!
 
I think the Q8300 is multiplier limited, so you can expect to get your board's max FSB * 7.5. So, 400*7.5 = 3ghz
 
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