Well, I ordered an e8600 to replace my q9450. It's been running great at 3.92Ghz for at least a month so far, but a friend was looking for a new CPU and I was looking for a higher per-core clock. I've been a little disappointed since I got this quad, given the fact that my favorite game (NFSMW) doesn't take advantage of the extra cores. It runs slightly slower than it did on my 65nm dual. Given 490 being stable with a quad, should I expect more FSB headroom going to the dual? I'm also hoping for tighter memory timings, since the quad seems to have hit them pretty hard.

--Matt