I wouldn't use quartz fixtures on softboxes made for strobes. You can get away with those cfl heads in the soft boxes for strobes.
Also, you get what you pay for. I've only used my cheapo soft box about 6 times in my house and it was fine. It failed on the 7th time which happened to be the only time i've used it on a paying gig. One of the rods poked through it's corner, rendering it useless.
fyi, strobes are daylight balanced. Most "hot lights" you can afford are tungsten balanced.
for a big soft box try a 2k blonde Ianbeam, this is tungsten balanced.
Dimming a tungsten filament causes the color temp to change drastically. Led's don't change color temp when dimmed but usually lack the punch required to shoot through a soft box. There's no such thing as cheap daylight balanced hot lights.
If you plan on using any smaller soft boxes and tungsten lights, fixtures like this:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-2-100...item1c49a00f8f
chinese version:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-Photo-Vi...item3a78446337
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