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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scot who wrote (32015)4/19/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: Scot   of 1577092
 
Don't know how many of you are gamers (probably Paul and Stocky <gg>), or even care about that segment, but I saw an interesting post from one of the developers of a highly anticipated game called Unreal on the deceleron. For the entire post, check unrealnation.com. The context is a discussion of system requirements for the game, to be released next month:

<<So, as we've said all along: YOUR MILEAGE WILL VARY. If you have a machine below 200Mhz just be patient and try Unreal when the shareware version comes out to see if you're happy with it.

Now for a new wrinkle in the pants. It seems just about any Pentium II will run Unreal amazingly. But, we have serious worries about these new cacheless Celeron systems. Games like Unreal make extensive use of the CPU Cache (more is better) and removing it, like Intel has done with the initial Celeron chips, could play complete havoc with Unreal's performance. Surprisingly to us, we don't have a Celeron system to test on. But our recommendation is that if you're interested in running Unreal keep away from computers with these chips until you hear otherwise. There are plenty of Intel-based MMX and AMD K6 systems to choose from in those price ranges that will probably give you better Unreal performance. The good news is that Intel says they'll add some cache back in the second revisions of these chips which will make them fine standing members of the P6 family but until then tread carefully.

If some hardware manufacturer has a finished system with one of these Celeron processors in it and they want us to test Unreal on it please contact me at mrein@epicgames.com and we'll arrange to do so.>>

-Scot
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