Realstorm, KribiBench, WAV, XviD
AMD's Athlon 64 Model 3800+ and Intel's Pentium 4 560 are priced at equivalent levels, which is presently around £450. Just like in Pifast, AMD's CPU spanks the 560's bottom in Realstorm's Raytracing benchmark.
The performance roles are reversed in KribiBench. What remains too close to call is the difference between either Intel chipset when Hyper Path 2 is enabled.
Intel's CPUs have traditionally been strong in media encoding tasks. That strength is carried through to the latest iteration of home CPUs. Again, it bears repeating that there's no significant performance differences between both ASUS boards.
The first really close benchmark revolves around encoding 611MB wave audio files into 192kb/s MP3.