Yea...your right an X2 3800 in my opinion is still great for pretty much everything....and at it's price right now it's almost impossible to recommend a single core anymore to anyone....even the lowest of budgets. Its true the the Core 2's are the best for the enthusiast as it's just more power in your case for benchmarks and those couple extra minutes in encoding or things, but it's true that the X2 line still is just as competitive pricing right now as the Core's and I still recommend them to a lot of people in builds.