Originally Posted by
mbreuer
For what you're doing, I'd strongly advise bumping up to a core i7. If not, do a Phenom.
Why? People have been using much slower chips with those apps for ages, and it's been just fine. There comes a point where you need to justify the price for the speed increase. And I'd say that home use of CS4 and Vegas will work just fine on a basic Quad Core as long as it is paired with decent ram and some speedy drives.
It makes no sense to spend $500 today on a chip that will be $200 in 3 months. In the chip world, I'd never pick the current top of the line unless I had money I wanted to waste.