Quote Originally Posted by TL1000S View Post
1st:
Most of you "hate" Intel for some reason.
2snd:
Most of you only own/use/care about tuning an AMD rig.
3rd:
You *must* comprehend that a "smoothness" test ideally will mean identical hardware apart from CPU (motherboard with similar chipset).
I think the answer is much more logical. There exist a cheap processor that is more pleasant to work with.
Regarding harddrive problems. Don't think this is the problem. Have tried three hardrives, all with 7200 rpm and one of those was a fast external with eSATA. of course you will not notice this very short freezing if just the processor spins, as long as the data is in the cpu for intel then it is fast. It is probably a communication thing.