Non-OC'ing a chip, 3800+ or 4400+?

[Civic2oo1x]

Strictly speaking, if I were to get a chip to not OC and just for audio/video encoding, light gaming, etc, which would be the better buy? I've heard that you can OC the 3800+ to 4600+ speeds, but this is going into a SFF, not the greatest of OCers, plus I have no interest in OCing. Would the extra cache be worthwhile?

 

[HamidFULL]

X2 3800+ is your mean? if OC go X2 3800 @ 2.6GHz Over X2 4800 if non-OC go X2 4200
release Cahce!

 

[HamidFULL]

X2 3800+ is your mean? if OC go X2 3800 @ 2.6GHz Over X2 4800 if non-OC go X2 4200
release Cahce!

 

[Furen]

The cache is worthless when encoding. Gaming benefits from it but I would be not recommend bothering with this either if you only plan to play games once in a while (that's what I think light gaming means). I'd get either the 3800+, the 4200+ or the 4600+, depending on how much clockspeed you want, but I'd wait at least until next week since I think AMD will be releasing the 5000+ (or was it the 5200+) and the FX-60 soon and there may be some price drops on the current X2s (maybe not, though, since AMD dropped prices without introducing a top-end model a few times in the last two quarters).