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Re: Tom cries foul

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From: Larry Chang
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:00
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But then, most of these cards are for games!  Are there any D3D graphical
applications out yet?  Most 3D applications uses Open-GL!  So, D3D is left for
games.  If you are not playing games, you better ignore the whole benchmark as it
is useless to you anyway.


Larry

Dave Oddie wrote:

> 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
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Date: 1998/02/16
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