AMD to Intel????

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i also have this annoying freeze right now. i'm also using AMD Athlon 64 3200+. i only experienced this 'freeze' the past 2 weeks. and last night, i reinstalled my WinXP OS to WinXP MCE, and the 'freeze' is still there and i haven't installed everything yet. is this a problem with the hardware?

My hunch is that its CPU related, despite what other people may think otherwise. Well for me, this annoying "freeze" occurs during multitasking operations. During this time, the CPU Usage will spike to 100% and normal operations resume only after the CPU Usage goes down. Looks to me, the cpu is choking.

Funny even, when viewing DiVx or Xvid video clips, there is a noticeable slow down, something which never happened in my Intel P4 mobo/cpu.

About three or so years ago, I remember reading about the webmaster of techreport.com commenting that his AMD cpu (which was an Opteron matched with 4GB Ram) on his primary workstation did get bogged down once in while on multitasking operations. In an unrelated comparison, he also mentioned that the P4 w/ hyperthreading he used briefly did not have much problems with multitasking.

Btw, pls post your PC specs so we can compare.