Building a new computer... suggestions?

[ion-storm]

Galaki said:

ion-storm said:
If you video encode you will certainly notice the difference. Intel > AMD for video encoding.

Is the difference good enough to justify the price different, though? I am not doing video encoding for professional work. Just a hobby where I convert videos to DVD so that I can't watch it on TV in the living room (which I rarely do, anyways ).

 For such a small difference in price I would say it's completely worth it. I don't do much video encoding myself but faster is always better.