> > nice, which one did you build that I mentioned, the low end P4 or the higher end P4 > > (mine)? > > I had the high end P4, but what was really funny was the board I used could not fully > utilize 100% of the CPU. > At that time I knew way less about hardware than I know now. I had used an Asus > P4V533-MX for the build. Funny thing is I still have it and it boots XP just fine
I have seen a big difference just in memory speed and video card on my two P4 3GHz computers, one I build and the other I get from the trash a couple blocks away. Both have the same clock speed but one runs most MAME stuff just fine the other the same games will lag quite a bit. One plays HD videos fine and the other makes them very laggy, and the video breaks up all the time, I know the HD videos are because the one Video card is a lot better than the one I pick out of the trash.