Re: p4 2.8 ht slower than amd +2600
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Date: 09/09/04
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:19:27 -0000
alan lim <wdsin2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi to all,
> I have 2 setup of the following specs
> system 1
> p4 2.8c ht / msi 875P neo motherboard
> Elsa Gladiac525 ti 4200 128mb video card
> 60 Gb SATA maxtor hd
> 1 GB kingston ram
> tdk cyclone cd/rw
> msi dvd rom
> system 2
> amd +2600 / abit nf7 motherboard
> albatron ti 4280 128mb video card
> 40 GB maxtor IDE hd
> 1 GB kingston ram
> generic cd rom
> hp 8200 cd/rw
etc etc etc
You are right, I would expect system 1 to be faster, if setup correctly.
1) are memory timings set optimally? and set to 1:1? and dual-channel
w/ only two DIMMS (in the right slots)? 875 should cook w/ the right
ram.
2) is DMA enabled for the HD's in both systems? Is the SATA on ICH5 or a
third party chip? Are both systems NTFS, w/ 4K cluster, created by XP
setup
and NOT by a previous windows version's FDISK (older versions did
not align partitions properly and can cause ntfs volumes w/ 512 byte
clusters, which REALLY slow down the system). How is it partitioned,
several 20-30 gig partitions will work better than one big one.
3) is XP's prefetching working on both systems?
4) run some proc, mem, and HD benchmarks to get hard data. I recommend
SiSoft Sandra.
As a general rule, AMD processors will out-run Intel for "bussiness type"
applications, due to their shorter pipelines which favor "branchy code",
but Intel will out-run AMD for computationally heavy tasks, such as
audio/video encoding/decoding, or heavy floating-point stuff.
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I'd recommend you frequent an MSI forum or newsgroup and ask other MSI
owners for tips w/ that motherboard {especially related to the ICH5 SATA;
you probably want it is RAID "enhanced" mode, even tho you're not raid'ing
it (yet)}. It should cook!
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