I have both an Athlon64 3500+ single core system and an Athlon64x2 4400 dual core system. Both CPUs run at 2.2 Ghz. The disk systems are identical (both have dual 73 Gb WD Raptor 10,000 RPM disks), memory is almost identical (both have 4 GB DDR400 at dual channel, the 4400 system has Kingston HyperX RAM running at slightly faster timings than the Transcend memory in the 3500+).

Poser performance on the 4400 tends to be slightly better than on the 3500+, probably due to the faster RAM. The difference is in the order of 2-3 percent.

Photoshop performance - hard to tell. I don't use Photoshop all that much, only for some simple tasks like resizing and saving for Web.

Vue 5 Infinite performance: the 4400 renders almost exactly twice as fast as the 3500+. Compositing scenes also is much snappier than on the 3500+.

3DS Max performance: the 4400 is significantly faster than the 3500+. Not twice as fast, which has to do with the graphics card: the 3500+ has a Geforce 6800LE tweaked into a QuadroFX4000, the 4400 has a Geforce 7800GTX. The 6800 LE performs significantly better with OpenGL - SpecViewPerf says about twice as fast as the 7800GTX. The lower OpenGL performace of the 7800GTX can also be felt when using Vue - one of these days I'll get a good OpenGL card, probably a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm.

I don't have Cinema4D, so I don't know how it would perform on my machines.

Games - I wouldn't know. The games I play (mostly Warcraft III) run very well on both machines.

The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter

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