It was bad memory. Anyway, after playing with the 5000 for a little bit, I ran some more conversion tests. I got roughly the same results, so video conversion is not AMD's strongpoint, at least not with these chips. Anyway, I abandoned the AMD platform and have switched over to a Intel platform. The 2160 with a Gigabyte P35DS3R board. I will say that I liked the Biostar MB better overall, but I got about a 35% better conversion rate (MPEG to DIVX) with the Intel platform.

Anyway, good luck everyone. Hopefully AMD will strike back this fall.

Utnorris