MSI P6N Platinum CPU Upgrade?

I currently have this board setup with the E6700 CPU. Not quite ready to upgrade the mainboard just yet but would like to squeeze the most performance out the P6N Platinum.
My consideration is the Q6700 OEM (getting hard to find), E8500 or E8600. I have the latest BIOS installed that supports these CPU's so would I should that much much of an increase going with either one of these? Are the 8500 and 8600 stable with this board? Sometimes tells me to go with the Quad Core ... 
The most gaming I do currently is with Call of Duty World at War, which the E6700 and 8800 GTS handle just fine but my most important application is Adobe Photoshop CS4.
I also plan on upgrading my operating system from WinXP x32 to Vista HP x64.
Thanks for any input

Quote from: kourosh on 13-December-08, 03:12:06
E8000 series are far superior than E6000 series they do 40 more instruction than E6 , much cooler.
E6700 is more expensive than q6600  with your mobo it is waste of money as you can easily overclock it i will go for q6600
He already got a E6700 and wants to upgrade, he's not buying one 
But yes a Q6600, with a small oc will do some nice work with photoshop.
If not mistaken its a multicore program, so it will use all 4 cores.
Its cheaper as the Q6700 and with it and your 800MHz ram, you can get along way, just be sure to buy a decent cooler if you decide to buy and oc a Q6600.
The speed difference you gain with 1066MHz RAM is minimal btw, you'll only notice it a bit in benchmarks, imo not worth the expense.

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