Quote Originally Posted by number001 View Post
Last Sept '06, my Asus P4P800-E (865PE) prematurely conked out. Bec. I didnt have the budget to do an all-out upgrade, I made it a point to reuse parts as much as possible. In other words, I just needed to get a socket 478 motherboard, but at that time the shops in Gilmore no longer carried such boards due to the fast-paced or planned obsolescence. To make it short, I got myself a AMD64 3200+ (venice) and ASrock 939Dual-SATA2 (motherboard). I just sold my now "useless" and "old" P4 3.0E ghz socket 478 cpu.

I noticed the AMD is much cooler and quieter (both by a big margin) than the P4 "PresHOT" cpu that it replaces. And those are the only good I think of, for the AMD. With all things equal (as in the only diffs bet. my AMD and Intel setup are the CPU and MB), I find the AMD so much slower in normal WinXP usage and esp. during multi-tasking (ie. browsing the net (ie and firefox), word, excel, win explorer, and divx running). There would be a few seconds of pause or "freeze", which is really annoying (even a Piii-500mhz/256MB ram will not do that).

So I'm contemplating to move back to Intel by getting either a P4 (65nm "Cedar Mill" core) 631 or 641 cpu and another Asus 865G based mb (P5PE-VM). Although the Core 2 Duo is tempting, it is disregarded bec. its cost is more than the double the budget. So is this a good move or should I just keep the AMD?
Unless you're moving up to core 2 duo, you're still better off with the amd setup you already have. Also, consider nforce4 motherboards from msi and gigabyte (if you're not into overclocking. dfi if you want to try your hand in the art of processor flambé ) the nforce4 boards from these manufacturers are top notch and almost bulletproof. i have been personally using nforce4 boards from msi (k8n neo4-f) and dfi (lanparty ut ultra d) for almost 2 years now. haven't experienced problems since the first day i set up my amd systems.

unfortunately, you're going to have to purchase a new pcie graphics card if you decide to adopt these nforce4 motherboards. if you plan to take advantage of dx10 in vista within the next few months you could altogether defer upgrading until the midrange g80 models from nvidia and r600 from ati/amd are released sometime this may (hopefully).

for the meantime, you can always tweak virtual mem, defrag your disks (powerdefrag is a great freeware utility), install the latest drivers and make sure your PC's free from malware (try bitdefender8 online scanner - unlike other free online scanning services, bitdefender also removes malware after detection).

and by the way, nag clean install ka ba ng xp since nag-migrate ka from intel to amd o driver patch lang ng existing os?