Well quad-core is the technology that new games will be utilizing. It's better to get that and be good for a few years than to buy a dual core and regret it. If he's that set on overclocking, guess what? A Q6600 can be overclocked very well too, especially if he get's a G0.
If worst comes to worst, I chose a card from evga, so in the event that it doesn't suffice, he can always use step-up to upgrade to the 8800 GTS 3 months and a few paychecks later.
well i know that..
i'm just trying to prove you wrong because you said that a Dual-Core Intel Core 2 Duo can't beat a Quad-Core... i know its sorta silly to buy a dual-core now... but i just wanted to prove my point..
actually people are expecting a lot out of the Yorkfields... so some people are getting Duals and upgrading to them later on....
True, however I don't think it's a good idea to get the E2180 and then upgrade to Yorkfield next year. First of all, Yorkfield isn't going to be THAT big of a deal, wow 45nm vs 65 nm and a larger L2 cache, it's not going to be as much of an improvement as a Core 2 vs a Pentium 4 is. Plus, it would cost him more money in the long run if he bought a 90.00 CPU now and then spent another 350.00-500.00 or whatever the retail price will be for the 2.5 GHz Q9300 Yorkfield CPU, than if he got the Q6600 now, which can be overclocked just as easily as the E2180, and wait for Nehalem in 2009.