Quote Originally Posted by grenadier View Post
Just flashed my P5K to 812 from 311 and so far so good. I've got two E8400's sitting next to me right now ($140 each from CompUSA deal) and I'm tempted to throw one in, but what I really want is a 9450. I do mostly video work - Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, and various encoding apps so I'm a bit hesitant to install a new dual core when there's several affordable quad core chips floating around. Then again I don't think any of the apps I use are actually threaded to take advantage of more than two cores yet.

I know it's off topic, but does anyone think I'd see a dramatic performance increase or an increase in overall program responsiveness with a 9450 @ ~3.4 vs. an E8400 @ ~4.0? Stability is essential here (4+ hour renders) so if an oc'ed quad core is going to be finicky let me know and I'll steer clear.

Thanks for any suggestions.
this is off topic but wow, you're one of the few that received the e8400 from compusa (made didn't get package intercepted)