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To: Scot who wrote (20012)	11/21/2000 11:41:42 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 275872

Maybe, but another explanation is that Quake is memory bandwidth bound, and that's the one thing the P4 platform is indisputable good at right now. I think the explanation Johan De Gelas gave is a little more straightforward. Bang! The Pentium 4 rules the Quake III World. Not really surprising, because the PIII-1000 runs Quake III almost as fast as a AMD's current champion. The fact is that Quake 3 is very bandwidth hungry, and combined with SSE-optimizations in NVIDIA's OpenGL drivers, you begin understand that superior bandwidth makes the Pentium 4 the ultimate Quake 3 processor. (http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=15000201) I liked Johan's writeup, though I must confess to not having made it through the whole thing. Cheers, Dan.