Dual P3 or Athlon?

A couple other students and I are going to be building a computer for the art lab at my school. It's going to be used mostly for video editing in Adobe Premiere, 3DStudio Max work and some photoshop stuff. Would it be worth it to go with like dual P3 800's over a 1.2 athlon? If we went with the dual p3's we would use windows 2000, but I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience of the dual processor setup making a big difference for this kind of use. Thanks!

yeah, though for most personal use an amd would be better, sounds like you'll be using only apps which will really benefit from two processors. just be sure to use on OS that supports multiple processors (not win9x), or its really a moot point anyway.

Definately go with a dual (P3 unless you can wait until late summer) for 3D Studio MAX!

Now a question about the dual Athlon's:

Will the dual EV6 (?) bus design on the dual athlon board mean really sweet memory bandwitdh compared to the dual P3's shared bus architecure? And will this make any real-world difference?

i agree on most apps two processors never = twice the speed, but what about 3d studio? every benchmark i have seen shows render times cut in 2 almost down to the second.