x264 runs faster on Intel chips, I believe.
humm, all righty then. I wish there where a few more numbers out there. Though, Phenom did flop for the most part so I am probably just getting my hopes up for a semi cheaper quad (really, the cheapest route for me it to upgrade my current system)
the CPU was not the issue there. if you read carefully his CPU utilization was around 30-40%... the problem was caused by the adobe crappy codecs...