4400+ vs 4800+ or stay with present cpu?

[Chrisped]

I know this has been asked before in one way or another but I guess I need to hear it from the horses' mouths. Not that you all are a bunch of horses, hehe, I just respect what is said on these forums and I like to get feedback on a particular thing.

I am thinking of upgrading to a dual core. Reason is I do the following.....

Gaming
Video editing
quite a bit of photo processing (converting RAW to .jpg and photoshopping)
surfing
video encoding and dvd ripping

and on my current 3500+ it chugs a little and I wait for it to process while I am multitasking.
Would the 4800+ be worth the extra money or would the 4400+ be fine? Or would the 4400+ even show a noticable improvement over the 3500+ as they run at the same core speed?
Also after a few mobo's tweaking and needing replacing after running them overclocked I am shying away from overclocking so this will probably run at stock speeds....

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Chris

 

[Furen]

are you considering overclocking at all? If so I'd get either a 3800+ or a 4400+, depending on the amount of cache you want. Either one will destroy your 3500+ in multitasking and the 3800+ will be only marginally slower than it in gaming (but it will allow you to game and encode video at the same time, for example). The 4400+ is a great CPU but I'm not too partial to $500+ cpus... An extra gig of ram might be useful, depending on your usage patterns.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Get an X2 4400+ and overclock.
You will also want another GB of ram for a total of 2GB in your system.

 

[the splat in the hat]

Well my 4400+ duel pwns my 3200+ and my p4 with ht, if you have alot of money to splash get the 4800 why not , but the 4400+ is awsome, l encode alot also and sheeeez is it fast compaired to the p4 or the 3200 amd...

 

[Novercalis]

the splat, how is the 3gigs in your comp doing?

im thinking going 2x1 gig or 4x1 gig.
mainly a workstation, video editing, tons and tons of editign, rendering primarily.

 

[Crescent13]

Get a 4400+, and do a VERY simple overclock to 2.4GHz, and voila, you have a 4800+.

You will see a BIG improvement.

 

[TankGuys]

Indeed, stay away from the 4800+. It's not worth the premium over the 3800, 4400, etc.