if it were an opteron, i'd say go for it... but you'd need a pretty damn good board to overclock that thing very far, since its an intel and you cant just implement a lower multiplier on the fsb (like you can with AMD's Hypertransport)
if you do a lot of video conversion and you multi-task constantly, then by all means get the quad core. personally i dont think its worth the money and an e6300 at stock speeds even would do fine.
the e6600 theoretically gives a total of 4.8ghz when the apps are dual-threaded or more and the xeon gives 6.4ghz of performance when the apps are quad-threaded or more. of course, most apps arent so the more practical thing for todays use would be the e6600 especially since you'll probably be able to just get it to 3.2ghz giving you the 6.4ghz that the xeon would.
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