AMD 2600+ VS Intel P4 2.8??

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oscaryu1

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Specs:

Intel Pentium 4 S478 2.8GHz HT (overclocked to 2.96GHz)
768MB DDR333 Ram
Geforce4 MX440 64MB AGP
Onboard sound
160GB WD HDD IDE
600W POWORK power supply


Specs:

AMD 2600+ (overclocked to 1.977GHz)
DDR333 320MB Ram
20GB Western Digital IDE
Geforce4 MX440 64MB AGP (same video card, just switched around)
450W Chiefmax power supply
Onboard sound


Question:

When playing halo with settings max, I get lags when I shoot the plasma pistol (either with holding the trigger or just shooting one shot). The green smokes makes my P4 lag.

When playing halo with settings max, I NEVER get lags when shooting the plasma pistol. Either in an remote or very crowded area.

Why??
 
clock speed means nothing

if a processor does twice as many calculations per cycle, then it really doesn't matter if it only does 1/2 as many cycles per second, it's still going to process just as much data in the same time, and be just as fast
 
At stock, AMD 2600+ is equivalent to P4 2.6GHz, not P4 2.8GHz

And the intel build have twice the ram, and have larger hard drive.......

The intel build looks better for me
 
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The problem of lag could be a loaded up OS. It depends. If the AMD is less loaded, it could take the plasma gun to fire with less lag.
 
ALl have the same stuff:

Office 2000 Pro (both)
NFS Porsche (AMD)
PC Wizard (both)
Video drivers (both)...

and pretty much the rest of the stuff you'd install on an computer...

The 20GB is like 10 years old...
 
A few possibilities:

Drivers: Maybe the graphics or sound drivers on one or the other computers are not totally up to date. Since you have the same video card in both, I'm gonna guess that's not it. A bad sound driver could make the PC hiccup because of the sound of the Plasma gun. Just a shot in the dark.

Motherboard: You didn't mention motherboard models. What are they? Are you using the most current drivers for your chipsets?

Some games simply run better on AMD or Intel. Developers sometimes seems to purposely design a game to run better on one CPU or GPU over another. That's why it's always good to get a wide range of benchmarks before making a decision.

Have you ran any benchmarks on these two platforms? If you do a comprehensive benchmark, like SiSoft Sandra or PCMark, you might find exactly where the speed differences are.
 
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