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I have run AMD systems for several years, most recently an Athlon 3200+ on an Abit NF7-S (rev2.0), with (2) 512meg sticks of OCZ 433mhz DDR(dual) and an FX5900 128meg AGP card. The rest of the system was pretty generic, a Maxtor 80gig HDD, Samsung DVD, Samsung CDRW, Nec DVD-RW, Windows XP Pro... Using the onboard sound and 5.1 speakers... All on my AMD systems have always run very smoothly and have handled most everything I have thrown an them, from games, to benchmarks, to video, etc...
My problem is with a P4 system that I have just set up. I am not very familiar with Intel, so I am asking for some help. Here's what I have: I have a P4 2.8C processor on an Asus P4P800 board (not deluxe), I used the same OCZ DDR433 memory sticks (dual) and the same FX5900 video card and all the rest of the system is the same, so I basically just changed mobo and processor. Cooling of the processor is with an aftermarket Thermaltake cooler and from the Asus utility, the processor runs normally around 36c idle and 44c when under a load. Power is from a 600w ATX PS...
The system runs games, browsing and all the benchmarks with no hiccups, but one program in particular, will lock the thing down, or slow it to a crawl... It is an editor for making 3d virtual worlds.
A "map" is made, then textures applied to the surface, then objects applied to the surface - trees, bushes, water, etc... In this editor, when I try to add/copy an object, such as a tree, I would select an object, then copy it (1 or more) to another area... When I try to do this with the P4 system, it freezes completely, or it takes several minutes to just register the selection part, never getting to the copy part...
I use this software quite often and the AMD processors Always handled this without any hitches. The 3200+ and the 2500+ I had never slowed or locked up in this program, but the P4 does not seem to be able to handle it... In this particular program, I know that when there are many objects on the landscape, that it takes a lot to process all that the "eye can see", but I thought Intel would be better at this... Was I wrong?. I do not see anything wrong with the system itself, but I do not know enough... I don't think I will ever know enough. It does not appear to be an issue with XP. I do not get any "error status" XP windows, even if I have to reboot... I think that the processing just halts, for whatever reason and it sits there till I reboot. I know I'm probably too vauge, but if anyone has any info on this, I would appreciate it...
This problem was present from the begining and the system is running "stock", not overclocked. Without resolving this issue, I wouldn't even attempt to overclock. If it is inherent to P4, then I'll be going back to AMD, but I just don't know if there's not something I might do to resolve it. All drivers are the newest versions available and the bios is the newest version as well. No updates available for the 3d program, but as I say it has worked flawlessly with the AMD systems...
I have run AMD systems for several years, most recently an Athlon 3200+ on an Abit NF7-S (rev2.0), with (2) 512meg sticks of OCZ 433mhz DDR(dual) and an FX5900 128meg AGP card. The rest of the system was pretty generic, a Maxtor 80gig HDD, Samsung DVD, Samsung CDRW, Nec DVD-RW, Windows XP Pro... Using the onboard sound and 5.1 speakers... All on my AMD systems have always run very smoothly and have handled most everything I have thrown an them, from games, to benchmarks, to video, etc...
My problem is with a P4 system that I have just set up. I am not very familiar with Intel, so I am asking for some help. Here's what I have: I have a P4 2.8C processor on an Asus P4P800 board (not deluxe), I used the same OCZ DDR433 memory sticks (dual) and the same FX5900 video card and all the rest of the system is the same, so I basically just changed mobo and processor. Cooling of the processor is with an aftermarket Thermaltake cooler and from the Asus utility, the processor runs normally around 36c idle and 44c when under a load. Power is from a 600w ATX PS...
The system runs games, browsing and all the benchmarks with no hiccups, but one program in particular, will lock the thing down, or slow it to a crawl... It is an editor for making 3d virtual worlds.
A "map" is made, then textures applied to the surface, then objects applied to the surface - trees, bushes, water, etc... In this editor, when I try to add/copy an object, such as a tree, I would select an object, then copy it (1 or more) to another area... When I try to do this with the P4 system, it freezes completely, or it takes several minutes to just register the selection part, never getting to the copy part...
I use this software quite often and the AMD processors Always handled this without any hitches. The 3200+ and the 2500+ I had never slowed or locked up in this program, but the P4 does not seem to be able to handle it... In this particular program, I know that when there are many objects on the landscape, that it takes a lot to process all that the "eye can see", but I thought Intel would be better at this... Was I wrong?. I do not see anything wrong with the system itself, but I do not know enough... I don't think I will ever know enough. It does not appear to be an issue with XP. I do not get any "error status" XP windows, even if I have to reboot... I think that the processing just halts, for whatever reason and it sits there till I reboot. I know I'm probably too vauge, but if anyone has any info on this, I would appreciate it...
This problem was present from the begining and the system is running "stock", not overclocked. Without resolving this issue, I wouldn't even attempt to overclock. If it is inherent to P4, then I'll be going back to AMD, but I just don't know if there's not something I might do to resolve it. All drivers are the newest versions available and the bios is the newest version as well. No updates available for the 3d program, but as I say it has worked flawlessly with the AMD systems...
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