Re: Why (NOT) Win2k for gaming ?

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From: Richard Walker
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:00

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"Mark Borton" <MarkBorton@DEEPSPACENINE.COM> wrote in message
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> 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

I agree 100%, except about the 'true Intel' bit.

Why not AMD?  I have a Thunderbird 800 games machine running 2k,
and it's great!


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Cheers,
Richard (speaking personally).

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