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To: Elmer who wrote (61465)	6/11/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) of 1572079

Intel's low-end solution a no-go for gamers: (from c't magazine heise.de We thoroughly tested the first two [Camino chipset] boards that arrived at our office: the PW65-D from DFI and the 370SWD from Supermicro... This means the CPU also handles the tasks of a modem and a SoundBlaster card, only a codec component and a line interface is needed as additional hardware... As long as the CPU is not very busy it can easily deal with this. But considering modern networked games, for example the notorious Quake, when modem, audio, 3D graphics and CPU must deliver high performance simultaneously, the remaining frame rate might be fairly low. Our test boards were already equipped with an audio codec, to connect the modem we needed a so-called AC97 modem riser card. Even without softmodem it was quite evident that Whitney's UMA concept (like all UMA concepts) clearly affected the frame rate during 3D games despite the display cache. The cache could not be shut down for the test; according to Intel the performance of the 810 drops another 20 to 30 percent without the video cache. (cheaper versions of the Whitnet chipset do not include the display cache) Petz

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