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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (58806)	6/25/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (3) of 186894

Gerald, You are talking insanity now. Yes there is now a bottle neck in the CPU at this stage of the game. But this isn't something Intel (or their investors) should count on for much longer. The next generation of chips, already under development offload even mroe work from the CPU. Coupled with DirectX6 which has the ability to feed even more "raw" data into the graphics chipset, the CPU will be used for less and less, eventually only for sound routines and the like (which are also being offloaded to dedicated co-processors). On top of this, the difference we are talking about are going from 35 to 57 fps. Well the human eye can only see between 24 and 30 reliably anyway, so what difference does it make???? Also to add some more doom and gloom (sorry, but just calling it as I see it), what about AMD(and IDTI and Cyrix) with 3D-NOW, the PowerPC with AltiVec, and the raw power of the Dec Alpha. Throw in Sega, Nintendo and Sony and there is ALOT of competition in the gmaing market. A PII is _not_ the most effecient way to get decent game performance. Steve

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