Katilian said:
Firstly, the E8400 is $189.99, so the quad core isn't cheaper. Secondly, it really depends on what you need. The E8400 is a more powerful chip per core than the Q6600 (Faster FSB, Faster Clock, 45nm). As has been mention, for the average user, they'll get more benefit out of the faster dual core than a slower quad core.
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It may have all those features, but the q6600 has 2 cores extra to do its work. Also you can easily overclock this cpu rather than the e8400