New PC?

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Yes, the Q9xxx series are better to overclock as the die size was changed...
But, you still need a good motherboard to push it 4Ghz and above as that requires the FSB to run above 400Mhz. The most critical part in the system is the mobo, spend you money on that and buy cheaper processors + aftermarket coolers to overclock.
If you're not looking for overclocking extremes, Q6600 is a very good buy as it can do 3Ghz easily and
gives you the 4 cores (as I see from what you said, you're using modeling apps, you'll need it).

I'm not sure why Abaddon was lagging with a C2D - I'm sure that's not related to the CPU being 2cores or 4 cores, as older games (like FL) use only 1 core... If you start the app, assign the app to core 1, everything
else goes on core 0 - all happy:)

Never had a problem with running FL on my T5600 even at mere 1.8Ghz !

Also, if you have a top-of-the-line graphics card, you'll need a faster processor to take full advantage (not neccessary to have more cores, but faster) - Something to do with the Core freq + FSB + PCI clock rates.
Usually higher end graphics cards perform best at full options+reso when cores are doing around 3Ghz+.

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