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Q6700 or wait?

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bustaplz

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I'm about to put in my Retail Edge order for the Q6700. Anyone own a 6700 AND a 6600? I'm just wondering what the practical differences are:

Does the 6700 have more overclocking potential?
Is there a temperature difference between the two that I should consider?

I'm trying to decide whether to buy a new motherboard when I get the 6700 and run that for a while or sell the 6700 cheap and hold onto that money until the new line comes out. I have an E6600 and a MSI P6N SLI Platinum now and quad core sounds pretty good but will I be missing out on alot with the new quad cores scheduled for Q12008 or will the 6700 be high-end for a while? Have a friend who will buy Vista and maybe the 6700 from me when I get it from Retail Edge and while I won't be making much profit(~$100 maybe) it will be the start of my next build fund. So, what say you, Hardforum?
 
the q6600 (assuming a g0) and the q6700 will oc more or less the same. Save yourself the money. Yorkfield is marginally faster if you do lots of video transcoding, and will likely oc higher. It also is rumored to have been delayed to late feb. to early march due to errata.

also as of right now 680i is incompatible with penryn quad cores.
 
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