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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (47597)1/27/1999 6:05:00 PM
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<Nobody is going to care too much longer about 3DNOW or KNI, because most of the math computations are migrating over to the graphics card.>

Are you sure? Most of the initial geometry calculations are still handled by the CPU, where 3DNow or KNI can be of a benefit. These calculations are pretty specific to the game or application itself.

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