SiN, if you're using XviD you'll tend to get better throughput with AMD at the same price point. I'm happy with them here. DivX has often been the reverse though results have varied with versions. The differences aren't earth-shattering though, so I'd look at the rest of the system and headroom which the 939 board has in spades. You'll be happy with it, with less power heat & noise. If you really want an encoding monster bump the L2 cache, add a core, and go for MHz. It just doesn't seem necessary when considering cost/hour encoding. Video encoding is not a fast process regardless of the system.
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