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Very interesting info there fumz , thankyou.
I think he has his heart set on an i7 , so I may have trouble convincing him to get an i5 lol.
I am starting to get the feeling that the 860 would be fine for him , I am sure once I tell him about the turbo boost then he may suddenly feel there will be no need for overclocking.
I mean the 860 will be miles better out the box than his old Q6600 which incidentally we can't seem to overclock at all with any stability (it turns out it was the bad revision of it).
You say there won't be much headroom for overclocking , I would hope at least 3ghz would be possible from it seeing as its 2.8 already?
Cheers