3700sd to x2 4400 (939) worth it???

[dale1uk]

Hi all, I'm thinking of selling my Sandy and going dual core. I only used to use my pc for gaming and the 3700 does everything I ask of it in that department, however I'm starting to encode quite a few dvds, and not being able to use the comp whist doing that is starting to get to me. I know that there'll be loads of people about to say NOOO go C2D, but I'm not looking to sell my board and ram, and then have to do a full fresh install, I just want a straight swap - cpu 4 cpu.
So, what will a clocked 4400 be like in games compared to my 3700, which is at 2.8gig?? Also what kind of clocks do the 4400's reach?? I know every chip is different but just after an average. At the end of the day will the upgrade be worth it for what I want it to do - game and encode??

Again no sugestions to go C2D, I know the performance jump over the amd's is huge, but money is tight (i know I could sell my kit to fund it) and like I said before, I dont want to do a full rebuild.

Many thanks.

 

[dale1uk]

ps what vcore does ** SD need to run @ 2.8? and is ** ram on divider?

Takes 1.56v to get the sandy 100% stable at 2.8gig, and thats with the ram on a 333 divider.


Back to the original question, looking on the cpu charts on Tomshardware, selecting my cpu as a fx57 ([email protected]) and the 4400 as a fx60 ([email protected]), then the results go either way, all the games are either better, or at the worst, the same using the dual core over the sandy, however a few apps work better with the single core. Then again they will be single core apps and that will leave me a second core to do other things with.
Looks like an upgrade is on the cards.