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Article #1033Re: Creative's card at ECTS
From: Brad Ball
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00
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J. Wang wrote in message ... >following up on my own thread... > >http://www.speedy3d.com/articles/ects_live_report/c.shtml > >The biggest selling point for Creatives Ge-Force256 - 64mb (32mb test on >display) is the fact that it's NOT a graphics card. Well tell a lie, it is >but not in the sense you would know a GFX card as. It houses what's known as >a Geometry Processor, this is essentially like having a P3 CPU built onto >the card itself and thus takes the processing power literally 90% away from >the main CPU. For example, make a Pentium90Mhz supporting Motherboard with >an AGP slot and then stick a GeForce card in, that's all you would need and >you would still get outstanding performance. BWAAAA!HA!HA!HA!HA! Outstanding performance from a Pentium90?!! Get real, I think people are taking this "takes the load off the processor" a little too far. Brad.
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