Intel or AMD for VMWare?

["Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin Weiss name>]

Okay, I've been trying out VMWare 4.5 at home and at work.  So far, it 
seems very cool!  I should be able to have the base OS be WhiteBox linux 
(RHEL recompile distro) and only have Win2k as a VM when I need to do 
something on M$.

So far I've only tried VMWare on P4's with 1GB of RAM and hyperthreading, 
and I've noticed that VM will eat up all of the processing time on one of 
the HT CPU's.  Now, I've been thinking of upgrading my home server (right 
now it's an AMD Athlon XP 2100+), and am wondering if it would be better 
to go with one of AMD's 64bit processors or with a P4 with HT.  The load 
on the server isn't that high typically (mostly just a web and email 
server), but I want to be able to VM effectively.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Ben