I'm running two systems, an t-bird 900 machine with an MSI k7tpro2a board and a p3/667e on an ABIT BE6 board. Both machines have the same hard drive (WD 18gig ata66 7200rpm) and the same video card (Leadtek Geforce 2 32/ddr). I get the exact same performance in UT and in Giants on both systems, yet the P3 system seems to be alot more stable. I don't the the freeze then go FPS on the P3 but it happens alot on the t-bird system. Both boards have the latest bios and hardware updates. Is this common? I thought the Athlon was a better and faster chip? Could it be the VIA chipset that I'm running? I've heard many problems with VIA. Any advice will help.
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