Just a little update . I went with the AMD build but had to RMA the Asus board that wouldn't post. Went with a Gigabyte MA790xt board and then found that one of G Skill sticks is bad lol....RMa'ing those aswell . Other than that it went smooth hehe . I'm running a stable overclock of 750mhz (3.1ghz stock to 3.85ghz on water) and could prolly go more but see no need to . I let Prime run for 3 hours and the load temp was only 36C . I opened up the 3rd and 4th core but it's pretty unstable with all 4. It run's 3 no problem but the 4th must be defective .... I was only looking for a dual core so i've disabled the 3rd core for now and will mess with it at a later date.
All in all it was a cheap upgrade.....but the performance over my old 4400+ is great, thanks for all the advise <S>