Are the Intel "Extreme Edition" CPUs worth the price?

[kylohk]

Well, the display card has already been bought (XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850), it'll be temporarily be placed in my 3 1/4 year old Dell Core 2 Duo PC, along with a newly bought 600W PSU.

I plan to rip out my 2 DVD drives from that machine for use on the new PC. I saw that a 1TB hard disk, 4GB of PC1600 DDR3 RAM should both be bought with peanuts money, so the only bit that I really have to think about is the CPU.

For the uses, refer to the previous post.

As for the gaming resolution, it's 1600 x 1200. Got to go for now. I'm at the airport and it's nearly boarding time.