Upgrade from 3500+ to 4400+ worthwhile?

[-BA-]

Currently running the setup in my sig below and have seen the 4400s on offer this week. I notice the operating speed is 2.2GHz which is the same as my 3500+ (unclocked). Obviously I know it is a dual core wth 1mb cache but am I likely to see much of an improvement over the 3500+. I am primarily a gamer - BF2, Eve, and their newer variants when they come out.

Thx

BA

 

[UKTopGun]

I think as your a gamer there wont be much difference even though its dualcore but I may be wrong.

 

[titaniumx3]

You won't notice any difference with the majority of current games, only few make use of dual core such as Quake 4 and TESIV: Oblivion, but even then the difference is small. That said, I'd definitely go with dual core since future games are certain to make use of dual cores, for example the upcoming Crysis is supposed use one of the cores for physics which should give quite a boost.

 

[Gandalf501]

Yep, I have a link that exactly answers your question... From Toms hardware... Where they used Oblivion as a testbed. FEAR is another CPU intensive game.

I will post the link tommorow, im on vista at the mo, and cant be bothered to dual boot back into XP where my bookmark is...