Why does the 300MHz Pentium II processor in my computer seem to run so much more slowly than the emotion engine in the PS2 running at 299MHz?

You're comparing your PC to a PlayStation 2?

128MB certainly isn't enough RAM for gaming & I'll bet your video card isn't very good either. And if your system is bogged down with unnecessary startup programs & spyware, there's your answer(s).

No..Gaming or anything like that was not my question and nothing is starting up when I logon. It just seems slower in general.

"It just seems slower in general".

When compared to another PII/PIII or P4, you got be reasonable here.

"nothing is starting up when I logon"

Stuff is ALWAYS starting up when you logon, you just don't realize it.

"It just seems slower in general"

Running only 128MB RAM certainly isn't gonna make for a fast machine. When's the last time you scanned for spyware, viruses, and defragged your drive?

This is because the PS2 has no hardware-hogging Windows-like OS to slow it down. It's completely dedicated to the game.

Great answer jackbomb that was exactly the type of answer I was looking for. If my machine was made in 1997 and Had an overclocked Pentium MMX processor to 233MHz and had 128MB RAM Would it be best to run windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows 2000?

You can pull your system off with Windows 9x based system like 95, 98 and even Me considering those systems were designed to run on your specs in which you have on your system to run on decently. Windows 2000 like Windows XP is designed for more powerful systems in which your system either barely meets the standard like in Windows 2000 or doesn't meet the standard at all like in Windows XP.

In order to run Windows 2000 or Windows XP decently you would have to gut your system out as in replacing the motherboard, processor, ram, and graphics card, and maybe even the hard drive to run Windows 2000 or Windows XP decently. If you put Windows XP on your system, and even though it doesn't meet Windows XP standards it will run but it would load very slowly and wouldn't even be worth it.

You can buy a 3 year old system for dirt cheap now. Tigerdirect.com has preowned pc's that have been checked out and certified by tigerdirect for under 200 bucks that even comes with Windows 2000 or Windows XP. You can't beat that, when normally the OS alone would cost almost as much as the system. I saw a p4 1.8ghz, 40 gig, 128 of ram preowned system they were selling for, for 149.99 that includes Windows 2000. All you have to do is throw in 256mb or 512mb of ram depending upon how much that system can hold for less then 50 bucks and you have your self a pratical system for under 200 bucks that can run anything on it but heavy 3D programs.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7800GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI