Linux V's Windows V's P4 V's AMD

[DaveQB]

I have heard many times how P4's, equal spec to an AMD system, will fall behind in games but always come out on top with encoding.
Because of this i am considering putting together a P4 system for the sole purpose of encoding ( a house full of AMD's :D)

But also, i hear and briefly experienced Linux to be alot faster at encoding.
But is Linux run on a P4 faster then an AMD running Linux or is the P4 over AMD encoding advantage only true in Windows with SEE2 optimised code ???

any info would be appreciated.

thanx

[Solo]

Can't speak for Linux part but since I moved to Intel and have seen just how impressive the incoding is I will be keeping my current Intel just for encoding even though I'm also getting an Athlon64 !

[DaveQB]

Cool thanx.

I have decided to give this a go.
a P4 2.6 (@3.5) and a P4P800S Asus mobo on their way .....