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Re: Why (NOT) Win2k for gaming ?

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From: YeungLui
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:21
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hehehe

i got to agree
:)

but, heck... is fun, to see soo many people are active.
usually most newsgroups are so darn quiet, and boring.

Rui Santos wrote:

> wow !!! so many replies !!! but hey.. look.. it's
> alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
> damm it , see where you post, BEFORE you post...
> 
> 
> well... if u didn't get it by now... argh.... WRONG newsgroup ! off-topic  !
> discuss matrox, not intel  ou amd, go to another ng for that
> 
> 
> "Mark Borton" <MarkBorton@DEEPSPACENINE.COM> wrote in message
> news:974120262.409.0.nnrp-02.c1ed3851@news.demon.co.uk...
> 
>> I have 4 systems
>> 
>> a Dual PIII500 thats NEEDS win2000 to utilize its SMP capabilities...and
>> this machine outshines my mates PIII800 at all but the really high end 3d
>> benchmarks where it equals them (Both off us have Geforce 2 ultras, both
>> using Detonator 3 drivers, mine win2k his win98SE)
>> 
>> A PII350, and 2 P200MMX machines
>> 
>> All the systems run faster, boot faster, crash less and are generally
> 
> nicer
> 
>> to work with now than undier 95/98....I have had no problems, no blue
>> screens , and havent turned 1 system off since they were installed (my
>> running time is now approching 3 months i think...possibly longer...can`t
>> remember when i bought 2k)
>> 
>> As a long time user of winxx right back to V3, and as both an NT4 and
> 
> win2k
> 
>> MCSE i can say that Win2k is the platform of choice for games and serious
>> work....i wish "High" street computer sellers would relise the potentiol
> 
> of
> 
>> SMP systems, you can get a cheaper system of comparable performnce now
> 
> using
> 
>> SMP than you can buy a Ghz system that does the same thing..
>> 
>> Win2k , if your not buying shoddy clone OEM hardware is the best OS for
>> gaming...Get yourself an Nvida Graphics card, Creative labs sound card and
>> DVD decoder, a Hayes V90 "HARDWARE" modem, a couple of TRUE INTEL
> 
> Processors
> 
>> , a Gigabyte Dual Processor Board and a Netgear network adapter if your
>> networking (the TX310 is good) and youll never look back
>> 
>> 
> 
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