very true. I've had other people tell me also that even if you don't over clock it you'll still be happy with it. so i guess i'll have to wait and see. either way, a q6600 along side a 4850 is gonna own compared to my current rig.
it depends on what you are doing. if you are playing most current games, at the clocks you gave, e8500 stomps the q6600. at those clocks, the quad would have trouble keeping up with the dual even doing the supposed quad core specialty of encoding.