I would suggest getting the Q6600 instead... or the QX6800 OEM (about the same price).

The Q8200 bus is already at 1333MHz FSB, which means its mulitplier is pretty low (its 7.0)... Thus you will need very high FSB to reach 3.2GHz.

This post has been edited by lex: Jan 3 2009, 10:38 PM

Usually in game performance, the Q6600 is slightly faster than the Q8200 as seen in this review. This is usually due to Q6600 bigger cache and slightly higher clock speed.. As can be noticed, games loves cache (and clock speed).

Talking about overclocking, the Q6600 would be the easiest to reach 3.2GHz... using standard RAM and motherboards. Which is why Q6600 gets my vote in the beginning...

However for Q8200 to reach 3.2GHz, there are hidden/extra costs involved such as getting a better (expensive super overclocking) motherboard, performance RAM (going above 400MHz system bus means the RAM will have to run faster than 800MHz, that means DDR2-1066 RAM is recommended) and the best 3rd party HSF (heatsink and fan). Going above 450MHz system bus (or 1600MHz FSB) isn't easy..