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I beg to differ with you.  In the 1980s there were a number of high-end
"co-processor" cards developed for the CAD programs.  I had four of the
them.  They included the Nth-Engine, ones from Pixelworks, Calcomp Drawing
Card, etc.  They sold for around $3,000 each.  I can assure you that even on
an old 386 these guys moved for 2D and 3D CAD.  The only bottleneck was the
speed of the bus.  However, for CAD this did not seem much of a problem.
Yes there was an increase seen for the faster CPUs and buses but it was not
as important as some would think.  With lots of memory and offloading the
processing, these new cards should work great on slow machines.

(I helped develop CAD programs in those days so I benchmarked many graphics
cards.)

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>> 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.
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>> Brad.
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>I agree.  I have seen at least one interview with nVidia wher this very
>point was brought up, and all nVidia would say was that a faster CPU
>will always give you better performance.  Seems pretty obvious, but they
>certainly did not go out of their way to indicate that blazing
>performance would be possible with a slow CPU.
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