[PLUG] Why is it slower on a P4?

Percival, Ray Ray.Percival at summit.fiserv.com
Tue Nov 19 16:19:34 UTC 2002


What hard drive is in the machine at work? I'm guessing you bought something nice while Dell tends to put cheap stuff in theirs. Also the Soyo is a pretty good chipset once again Dell not so much. The other reason is in almost everything except multimedia the Athlons tend to do better than the P4s. Also have you built a nice custom kernel for one and not for the other. Turning on processor support when building a kernel can make a *huge* difference.



-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Johnson 
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:22 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Why is it slower on a P4?


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
http://www.dimstar.net

Love is a hole in the heart -- Murphy's Laws on Sex n°29

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