[RudeCurve]

I'm gonna be purchasing a new CPU and need advice on which will be better/faster for recoding h.264 used on Blu-ray movies. I just purchased a Blu-ray burner and am recoding/compressing the larger BD-50 dual layer movies down to BD-25 single layer. This process takes quite awhile on an old 2.4GHz P4 that's been used over the years for DVD's MPEG2 recoding. Since I recently made the jump to recoding Blu-rays this old dedicated workhorse needs to be replaced with a new system. My budget for the CPU is $200 and I'm thinking of getting the 8-core AMD FX-8120. Is this a good choice for the described job or should I get a quad core Intel Core i5-2400?