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How Much Faster is a Q9550 Based System?

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What's an estimated real world performance / speed difference between these systems? Thanks

This will be for heavy use of Microsoft Excel 2007, which is only capable of using less than 2 Gigs of RAM.

Mobo: Asus P5NSLI
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16 GHz (stock)
RAM: 4 Gigs DDR2 667

- vs -

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P - P45
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.6 GHz (o/c)
RAM: 4 Gigs DDR2 1066
 
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