E7200 vs E8400 vs Q6600

[aandy501]

Planning on building a new pc pretty soon, but I am having trouble deciding what CPU to get. At first I was thinking an E7200. The E7200 only has 3mb cache though which makes me think the E8400would be a better choice. At that price point Price point though, would it make sense to go quad core? Seems to me that the E8400 would be faster Whatever I get, I plan on throwing a big Zalman cooler on it and OC'in it quite a bit.
Just looking for some opinions, thanks for lookin.

 

[Red Exodus]

I'm not much of a techhead [yet] but I'm planning to go with the E8400, I heard good things about it from several places so I figure it must be worth it.

 

[Wikipedia]

Wow two posts and you are already jumping head long into the computer cafe, impressive.

 

[AltF4]

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