I know this thread might sound a bit stupid by it's title hehe. I'm just trying to get thoughts about the difference of performance between the two. I had two computers, a Core 2 Quad Q6600, P5K Deluxe, 4GB Ram DDR2 Corsair 6400 XMS2 4 4 4 12, Radeon 4770, Raid 0 two 7200 F1 Samsung 500GB drives and the secondary one, a Athlon 4800+ 2GB Generic Ram, 320GB HD, Asus M2N68 Plus. The Asus motherboard died along with the power supply, it was an electrical failure for sure, I replaced it by a ECS 8200. My friend wanted to buy my Core 2 Quad and I wanted to upgrade to the I7, so this is what I did, sold him the motherboard and cpu, bought an Athlon II 240 and gave the 4800+ to a friend who was using a crappy Sempron. Overclocked it to 3.6Ghz, had some trouble trying to set the right ram frequency since this motherboard doesn't support so many overclocking options. This computer is really fast, I do not feel a difference comparing it to my old C2Q which was also at 3.6Ghz! Only in Windows, haven't been gaming. This new system is using the C2Q old memory and vga with my hard drives also, I remade the RAID0 arrays and it's running rock solid at 3.6Ghz. My question is... Is there a huge difference in terms of performance between my old expensive PC to my new CHEAP one? I want to wait and see if Intel releases new revisions of the new processors, hoping for some overclocking love. Here are the specs of the current system: ECS A8200 (nforce 720a, Geforce 8200 onboard) 4x1GB Corsair XMS 2 4 4 4 12 Athlon II 240 @ 3.6Ghz ATI Radeon 4770 512MB DDR5 It's sure a little beast for the price but I'm a multi task monster, currently writing it from my notebook since I'm away from home. Thanks