INTEL vs AMD

[JJADAMS]

Hi ALL,
I have posted this a couple of times in different forums topics, and not sure what one to pick. One of these days I'll figure it out. Sorry!
Now for the questions

I recently bought a Gigabyte GA-8PE677 Ultra motherboard and Pentium 4 2.4b GHZ processor. I have been running raid on my previous setup.below are my specs. My question is, what would be better for me? Raid or ATA133 with this setup. Also what type of 3dmark2001se scores should I get. I don't overclock. Bios settings are default

My previous system was a AMD XP1700+ gigabyte GA-7VRXP with the rest same as below. I really don't see any difference between the 2 processors. The amd booted a lot faster. Both have been setup as raid0. I thought going to a 1ghz faster would show some improvement. Can you think of anything I can do to help?
Thanks all


Motherboard-Gigabyte GA-8PE677 Ultra
Processor- Intel Pentium 4 2.4B GHZ
2 40 gig maxtors ultra ata 133 running raid 0
Crucial ddr 512 meg 266mhz
Leadtek geforce 4 ti 4400
Sony CR\CDRW 40X/12X/48X

 

[HWF]

I may not understand your question, but it looks like you have both ata133 and raid. If your asking which to use single drive setup or raid then you'll need to decide. I setup a raid0 system on my computer and it blazed through benchmarks but in everyday usage I saw no significant difference. I just replaced my amd 1800+ system with a P4 2.4 and mb and my performance jumped but I am overclocking my system. As with most things it depends on what you like and do.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

While your new system may not exactly "feel" faster than the old setup, Comparing benchies between the two should show that new setup is deffinitely faster..Opening programs, loading games may not nescisarily faster as you could be bottle-necked at the HDD department(even with the raided setup). Remember, all you really did was improve processing power. That will only really show up in processor-intensive apps like photoshop, mpeg encoding, seti@home, some newer games, etc. Your old system had a good snap to it when opening apps, surfing, gaming,etc. And the new one should as well, with more pop when doing heavy things. Only real way to tell was to have run a suite of benchmarks on the old setup and then run them again on the new setup..