An Upgrade question

[Scarpad]

I'm running a E4600 DUAL CORE w/2gb ram. With this I'm only getting between 4-6 fps Converting a 1980x1080p mkv file to a 1280x720p m4v file using the apple preset.
My Motherboard can accept upto a E8500 Dual core. Would I see a significant enough fps boost upgrading to the slightly higher processor? I'm running winxp sp 3.

[mduell]

Going from 2.4Ghz to 3.16Ghz isn't going to improve encoding speed much. Does your motherboard support Core 2 Quad?

And you kind of smell like a pirate.

[TedJ]

You're definitely going to see a much bigger boost going with more cores than a higher clock.

[Scarpad]

Gee thanks for telling me I smell. I own an apple tv and I encode alot of my blu ray tv disks downn for convienience to play on the apple tv , which only supports 720p.