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Re: Creative's card at ECTS

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From: Brad Ball
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00
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Waqidi Falicoff wrote in message <7r8u9d$mno$1@news.creativelabs.com>...
>as important as some would think.  With lots of memory and offloading the
>processing, these new cards should work great on slow machines.


Yes, they may work pretty good on a slow machine but they won't come close
to the performance of a faster machine. In other words, if you think a GF256
is going to "save" that old P90 then you are dreaming! Besides, didn't
NVIDIA already announce a 266mhz minimum spec?

Brad.
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Subject: Re: Creative's card at ECTS
Date: 1999/09/09
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