LAME MP3
The Intel E4300 does acceptably well here given its price, beating previous generation dual core Intel chips and the AMD X2 3800+ and X2 4200+.

Ofcourse it gets spanked by the higher end Core 2 Duo's.

TMPGEnc
The E4300 appears to be a decent value for encoding, again it beats older Intel chips, as well as comparably or lower priced AMD AM2 chips.
