I think your apps are NOT foreseen for quadcore use Luci5er... nothing more nothing less...in my encoding (dvd ripping and co) it's so blazing fast with appropriate programs... ofcourse you are going from 2.1 to 2.6Ghz which is not a big leap, though overall system performance due to the extra cores, higher fSB and ram bandwith will be better overall... wait till you pump this baby up to 3ghz and beyond...