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I used to have a pentium 3 800mhz and 192mb ram. An asus motherboard (p3b-f), a 40gb HD, running at 7200rpm, and windows XP. My computer worked just fine, very nicely, but i upgraded it to pentuim 4 expetcing even better results. I have 256mb ram, 1.8ghz and an asus p4t-e motherboard. I continued using the same HD, so i left windows the same. The thing is, windows is running much slower now. For example, this is a multiuser computer, so we each have to putour password on the logon screen to get access to the computer. With pentium 3, you puta your password, and in matter of seconds you appeared on your desktop. Now, 3 out of 4 times, it just hangs right after you put your password and pres enter, and there's no way to get to the desktop but restarting the PC. ALso the 1/4 of a time i get it to work, i notice, programs use a LOT more of Cpu than they did before, hence making my PC to become unstable and slow. I invested quite a sum of money on this so PLEASE tell me what is going on here. i'm supposed to have double capaciy CPU, AND i'm running on a 400mhz bus compared to my 100mhz previous bus. i need a solution!!!!
thanks,
Benjamin
defrag your HD. uninstall unneccessary programs. if u only have 192mb of ram only have 2 users login at once or u will have performance issues when u run a lot of programs. multiple users on one machine eats a lot of ram.
If u need more power, experiement. buy more ram!!!. it is real cheap and will speed up your computer!!!
Don't feel bad I had a p3 933 until I upgraded to a athlon 1700+. Now my machine is very fast.I hope my advice helps!!!
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By the way, P4 chips do run slower on applications that have not been optimised for it - that's why the P3 runs them faster.
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Bob, I changed for P3 600 to P4 1.9 and it is a different world; listen to Bob and Perron and save all data, format and reinstall the OS. I don't know where XP rUS is coming form, there is absolutely no comparison between the speeds of these processors regarding running applications, ram usage, cache or background task; your P4 should easily double all prior performance.
After saving all data, go into bios and change boot sequence to allow cdrom to boot first. Restart your computer with your XP cd in the cdrom then format and reinstall XP.
JRF
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