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Nov 14 9:30 AM EST

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To: jamok99 who wrote (19405)	11/17/2000 9:20:52 AM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Jamok, Re: and while I'm anything but a technie, I would think that at such resolutions "Mhz Matters" (TMjamok99)in terms of CPU speed/framerates, rather than just how fast the processor or memory in the video card is. No, the problem is that it doesn't matter. A K6-2 with 500 MHz is in 1024x768x32 with a GeForce 2 as fast as a 1 GHz Athlon because both are fillrate limited. Currently the CPUs are just "too fast" for the video cards to keep up with. This will probably change a bit with the next generation of video cards with greater fillrates but then T&L will have a much greater impact so it's not forseeable how much difference a faster CPU will make. In a few years the CPUs will probably only do things like collision control and AI while the 3D graphics will be entirely rendered by the video cards and their T&L engines. Andreas

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