marscay said:
fatrakoon - for someone with over a dozen rigs you seem to have serious problems somewhere along the line
Yes, the AMDs are running well, only the Intels are not... but we know why.
I tell you what... See if anyone else has the very same issues yeah?
The P4 prescot 6600 is a 3.6Ghz HT job.
The Basic PC is a Fujitsu Seimens.
Originally it came with 2 x 200GB WD Drives, and 2GB RAM
The original box etc has gone, and so I will need to dig out the exact model, but if anyone else has a system of this spec, and has the opportunity to compare it with an AMD, or any half decesnt Intel of course, then by all means, they should back me up... Unless I am just unlucky with Intel.
marscay said:
i also don't believe you can truly multitask on a barton core or any single core for that matter ...p4 with HT were much cleaner in windows but not AMD.
Hey, dont get wrong here... The lesser stuff does indeed slow down. As it would on any CPU if you throw enough at it...
The Video conversions say they will be done in one hour for example, and burning 4 DVDs at a time does not affect this one jot. It will be finished in roughly that one hour... If I played a game, perhaps HL2 / Quake 4 or whatever, if I play it for perhaps half an hour, then when I go and check up on the Video conversions, they dont say they will be ready in the expected 30 minutes, but rather their time has gone up to perhaps 45 minutes, so the background apps do slow down, but not as much as many seem to think.
Nero burning a DVD takes up ZERO CPU time.
You must remember that if I was using just one HD, then sure, the whole system would trundle to a halt, and the DVDs will almost always fail... Even burning one DVD and trying to play a game can cause it to fail, especially if the DVD is on the same line as the HD, but I use multiple DVDs and Multiple HDs... I never burn on the same line as I am defragging or copying to/from or even running an app from.
Try it yourself.
Use perhaps 4 HDs ( Partitions dont work here, use 4 HDs, or even 2 perhaps ) and burn as many disks as you want, from one drive and then defrag another drive, and then copy a large file from the third drive to the fourth... You will find that each operation will run at its normal speed. If the copy operation takes exactly one minute on its own, then it will still take one minute if you have multiple drives.
Oh, its also quite important to have each drive on its won line too!
I use a PCI card as well as the ones on the Mobo cos the Mobo ones on their own dont manage it.
