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Article #1020Re: Athlon & Geforce : slower than P3 ?
From: Ed
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:00
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I have heard that these problems have been solved with the new atherlon chipsets (KX133) at least under NT anyway. ericj006@my-deja.com wrote: > Could this be caused by the GeForce drivers forcing 1x AGP on the > Athlon chipsets? I've read some other threads about incompatibilites > between the Athlon AGP chipset and the GeForce that prompted NVIDIA to > make their drivers force AGP to 1x speed. Could that be the cause of > the performance deficiencies on Athlon systems using the GeForce? > > In article <952288168.16584.0.pluto.d4ee4477@news.demon.nl>, > "Sandman" <postbus@morpheus32.demon.nl> wrote: > > I own an Athlon 700 with a CLAP and know from firsthand experience > that > > my CLAP runs just a little bit faster then on a PIII 600!! This sucks > big > > time. > > When I replace my CLAP with a V3 3000 then the Athlon beats the > Pentium > > III 3000 hands down. Sadly I prefer the CLAP in favor of the V3 3000. > > > > John Gerard <jmgerard1@home.com> schreef in berichtnieuws > > 38c2baec.15124880@news.pinol1.sfba.home.com... > > > Read this at www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q1/000205/index.html. > > > > > > John > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:41:12 -0000, "dennis lonving" > > > <dlonving@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Hello, > > > > > > > >There are so many words over the web about Athlon & GeForce... > > > >I wonder if, with the last driver, a GeForce is still slower on an > > Athlon, > > > >compared to a P3. Or is everything ok now ? > > > >More, I suppose that the GeForce don't use the 3dNow! stuff, nor > the > > > >equivalent-stuff on a P3 (I've forgotten the name). > > > > > > > >You guess it : I'd like to know if I should buy a new P3 or a new > Athlon > > to > > > >boost my GeForce DDR. > > > > > > > >Have fun. > > > > > > > >PS : If you answer in this newsgroup, please email me too, at : > > > >dlonving@hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10dec9,30384eda43ec61ca X-Google-Attributes: gid10dec9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,30384eda43ec61ca X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: feaeb,30384eda43ec61ca X-Google-Attributes: gidfeaeb,public From: Ed <edward@infinity-communications.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Athlon & Geforce : slower than P3 ? Date: 2000/03/08 Message-ID: <38C5BA38.72F8D97A@infinity-communications.freeserve.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 594527723 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <862tmt$gsb$0@dosa.alt.net> <38c2baec.15124880@news.pinol1.sfba.home.com> <952288168.16584.0.pluto.d4ee4477@news.demon.nl> <8a3ova$755$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Trace: newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk 952482277 26394 62.136.176.204 (8 Mar 2000 02:24:37 GMT) Organization: Customer of Planet Online Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Mar 2000 02:24:37 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,creative.products.3d_blaster.annihilator,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia