A question on AMD durability & Stability

[Game-Hacker]

When I bought the computer for my office need, I also bought Pentium 4 3.GHZ (hyperthread) for my home computing exactly in the same date. This pentium 4 has all the same spec as the Sempron CPU and uses also ECS motherboard but different type of course.

Now, I did not see any significant decrease in speed while using my Pentium 4 CPU in my home but did see a little decrease in speed when using the Sempron CPU in my office.

The difference in speed processing in the old computer (Duron) is clearly experience by me. I re-formated the CPU and only installed WinME with my old favourite games STRONGHOLD CRUSADER and DIABLO II:LOD but when I started the game, I really found it turned 50% longer than used to be.

About the heat or others, I have no problem as all my computers are all in air-conditioned room.

[Luci]

pentium and sempron is not the same at all!!!!sempron might be 3.2 but it's a lot slower at speed

[Game-Hacker]

Originally Posted by Luci

pentium and sempron is not the same at all!!!!sempron might be 3.2 but it's a lot slower at speed

I know about that. What I meant is, let say for instance:

When I wanna play a game and clicked the icon, it used to go to the main menu, let`s say 5 seconds now after six month, it took 7 seconds. That happened to the Sempron CPU but not the Pentium CPU.

[Luci]

maybe you hae installed many programs or maybe you didn't uninstall properly programs and the registry has some useless stuff.try cleaning your registry with a program.

[Game-Hacker]

Originally Posted by Luci

maybe you hae installed many programs or maybe you didn't uninstall properly programs and the registry has some useless stuff.try cleaning your registry with a program.

I usually maintence my PC on Friday evening, that is before leaving for week-end holiday and that included, defragment, clean reg, etc. Well, I am a computer maniac.

Just wanna ask you some simple questions, how long have you been using your current AMD PC? any change/decrease in speed?

I would love to buy a new Opteron (AMD 64) notebook as Intel has not release their 64 bits notebook, but the only problem is that I heard, that AMD 64 bits does not support DDR2. How would you sugguest? Thx for chatting by the way.

[Luci]

my athlon xp 2.5?well it must be around 1 year.no man speed's fine.well i also happen to have 1Gb of ram and a 5700(yeah i know!!!)but the pc is damn good.have not a problem

well i am not a fan of notebooks cause in my brothers notebook i can't play any game!!!!he has 2.5 celeron with 256ram but doesn't play anything!!!.well i'd go for athlon cause i love 'em.find some tests about notebooks and see the specs.i'd surely go for an athlon64 with 512 ram

[Luciel]

The reason why its slower its not the cpu

ATA HDDs reduce functionality over the years if unused or nearly/tottally full. ive tested this theory several times now i have a S-ATA hdd for about a year, with amd cpu still and no slowdown at all hope this helps.