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Article #144Re: Tom cries foul
From: Eric Whalen
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:00
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Dave Oddie wrote: > On 15 Feb 98 22:47:47 GMT, maruku@busprod.com (Marc J. Brown) wrote: > > >Remember, he had real-world benchmarks (you know.. using the actual > >applications one is bound to use with 3d hardware?) to support his > >claims. > > Toruk and quake. Oh good. Really relefent real world benchmarks if you don't > play the games. > > > Of course, the Intel chip _is_ good for one thing: You can > >spend hours drooling over your kick-ass 3D Winbench 98 score. > > Could say the same thing about voodoo and timedemo or whatever the quake > benchmark feature is. > > Dave > -- > > Remove the letter t from clarat if replying via email Time demo is like playing the game. IF some 1 says they get 15 fps in time demo 2, i laugh, then i cry for them, and then i say buy voodoo, or to throw away their cyrix. I can tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps. And if voodoo 2 gets 40 fps in 800 600 in a time demo of quake 2, then i know its gonna play fast.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1029b6,7789963de848befd X-Google-Attributes: gid1029b6,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,7789963de848befd X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,304a1c425bc37c4e X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: Eric Whalen <whalen@bigfoot.com> Subject: Re: Tom cries foul Date: 1998/02/16 Message-ID: <34E85746.85A3C58D@bigfoot.com> X-Deja-AN: 325608610 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34e6c88e.684585@nyheder.get2net.dk> <34ed102e.13104261@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <34e77093.0@news.busprod.com> <34e942e6.354383041@news.clara.net> To: pcq@oddies.clarat.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: whalen@bigfoot.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.game.discussion,3dfx.products.voodoo2