Classic question, don't have the answer

[mrbdm99]

Ok, so it's the classic AMD vs Intel. I've looked at most of the posts here, but I have a bit of a more indepth (maybe?) question. First, I've been using AMD for the last 4 years, it's still the same 800mhz Athlon I bought back then and it's getting kinda slow for some stuff. I've just started making DVD's from a bunch of files and movies I have. It takes 15 hours to compose one DVD in Nerovision Express and that gets kind of annoying. I know a P4 encodes better then A64, but I still love AMD. I was dead set on a 64-3200 or so until I started thinking of OCing a P4. I was wondering what kind of speeds I would expect on a P4 2.6~2.8 with something like the Asus P800 (I think??) without getting any really fancy cooling. My budget is limited, I'm really wanting to spend less then 500-600 dollars (if that....) because I'm going to get a new computer in about 2 years, at most. That money is for processor, ram, mobo, and hard drive. I'm not worried about the case or video card, I have those here. Anyway, for that price, what am I looking at in the P4 oc'd world and the AMD (say a 2500 barton) world. Also, how much effort is there envolved in OCing something? Well, not so much effort, I just don't want to have everything fried when I hit power.