from Tom's Hardware, the X2 chips outperform every chip in terms of multitasking abilities. in terms of running one program straight up obviously a single core chip will always outperform a dual core chip. think of it as this:

AMD X2's are better at juggling.
Intel single core chips are better at focusing at one thing at a time.

it's up to you. i just know that dual core is the thing of the future, and more and more applications will be optimized for it so i decided to go AMD dual core.

of course, i already have a P4 chip on my everyday PC (2.4 gig). figured might as well have one of each.

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that is exactly the problem, dont mock me as to say i am a dumbass. System resources go through the rough when he is exporting, and his processor gets taxed out, and then the video starts to chop up completely, and drops frames!

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Rendering programs use multiple cores though... so you get a benefit for using dual cores.

After quite a bit of review, it seems like if you're going to buy a video-editing card, go with intel. If not, go with AMD.

I tried really hard to find a system that I could get with a video-editing card that was halfway cheap, but I couldn't do it... so I've got an Opteron 165 on the way with all sorts of goodies along with it.