Performance question

[Jank]

I have 2 PCs - PIII 940Mhz overclocked and Celery 1.1Ghz native.
The Celery is about 10% faster in every aspect acc. to Sandra 2003, chips, memory, disks etc.
But in real life - the PIII is 3 times as fast !
Any app., web etc - very slow on the Celery. For example Photoshop takes 5 secs to open on the PIII and 15 secs on the Celery.
Same RAM, same virtual mem settings....
The only diff. is that the Celery has sound and video on board. But still - Sandra say video is faster on the Celery too.
Any ideas here? The Celery is slooooow, the disk seems to be accessed alot too.
I've done the obvious - defrag ( Norton ), stop unneeded Win services...nothing helped.
Any clues - suggestions?
The PIII I built myself, the Celery is Fry's GQ cheapo job with upgraded RAM and CD-R.

 

[Smilin]

Clues - disk access a lot on the celery.

Is the pc recognizing it's full amount of memory?
Is the hard drive a decent one on the celery? Hard drive speed more than anything else determines how fast a computer "feels" since it's the only component slow enough that a human can notice.

Check your drivers. Be sure you don't have any yellow dots and be sure everything that's supposed to bus master does so.

I'm guessing it's a low capacity drive ( <20gig) and slow (5400rpm).

Also, that p3 running at 940 *IS* much faster than that Celery.

Try running Sandra with a small application in the background like winamp. I think you'll find if you force a bit of multitasking the PIII is going to leave that celery behind.