[PLUG] Why is it slower on a P4?

[Cooper Stevenson]

Russ,

Is the BIOS on the P4 set to ``Optimized Defaults?''


-Cooper


On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:18, Russ Johnson wrote:
> Here's the situation.
> 
> I have a machine at home configured like so:
> 
> Athlon XP 1800+
> Soyo kt333 motherboard
> 512 mb RAM
> 40 gb hard drive
> 32 mb ATI video card
> DVD drive
> Creative CD-RW 12/10/32
> Mandrake 9.0
> 
> At work, I have the following configuration:
> 
> P4 2.4 ghz
> Dell mb (Sorry, it's a dell workstation. work bought it for me...)
> 1 gb RAM
> 40 gb hard drive
> 32 mb ATI video card
> cd/dvd/cdrw combo drive
> Mandrake 9.0
> 
> Here's the catch... The Athlon can handle more load than the P4. I'm
> writing this message while downloading files, burning a CD, listening to 
> mp3s, and untaring BIG tarballs. No problem at all. 
> 
> If I try this same thing at work, the system is EXTREMELY sluggish. The
> mouse pointer jumps instead of smoothly crossing the screen, I can't
> drag windows around. It's hard to get the mouse pointer to stop on the
> window bar, let alone on a corner...
> 
> Why would the P4 be such a dog (besides the fact that "it's a dell,
> man."
> 
> -- 
> Russ Johnson
> Stargate Online
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> 
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