If what I see is placebo then I'm still good. It's my first time swapping to SD and I read somewhere that it can help unclog internal flash i/o read/write traffic or something to that effect and I think that is what I'm observing. The stuttering-while-listening-to-8tracks-while-doing-other-things seems to be due to cpu limit. I was looking at conky while testing and cpu usage was around 100 so moving swap to SD can't really help.