Quote Originally Posted by Emerica View Post
According to that explanation, if you overclock a Q6600 to 3.0ghz you will still have the performance of a E6850 but quad core. So in my mind wouldn't it be smarter to buy the Q6600 for the same price as the E6850 and overclock it to 3.0ghz+ which should be easy on air. And in the end have two extra cores. Or am I missing something?
Yes but on air you'll get close to 4ghz with the E6850, but 3.6ghz with the Q6600, so the gap is there again.

Unless you're happy with Q6600 @ 3.6ghz (heh, as if it were something bad) instead 4ghz for everything that's not 3D render/video encoding.

Still there's the future games. I'm not very optimistic. We have 2 cores a lot of time ago and the number of games supporting it is ridiculous.