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To: Joe NYC who wrote (112183)	10/2/2000 8:02:10 PM
From: Craig M. Newmark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Oh, c'mon Joe, Pournelle's column does not refer to, as you put it, "all the problems he had on Intel based systems and especially with the integrated video." He said he had a problem with one aspect of one game (night vision for his character in Everquest). He even quotes a computer guy as saying that maybe the Intel chip is correctly interpreting the scene while the external boards are not. (Pournelle then says he doesn't believe that, but he can't explain why the Intel chip performs differently on this one aspect of one game.) And he concludes that section of his column with this: "On the other hand, except for the night vision of the characters, it hardly matters. If you change from a first-person character view to an overhead third-person view, the visual change is instantaneous on both the Voodoo and the Intel integrated. In other words, while the Voodoo 5 board is much faster with 3-D images, there nothing in the Everquest game or indeed most other games that will let you test the difference." Given the price difference between the two, this sounds like a pretty good reason to prefer Intel. Craig