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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (137219)	6/12/2001 4:57:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, I think part of the reason for using Quake 3 in benchmarking is that it is very easy to use for FPS measurements and the results are quantifyable and reproducible. Also, Quake 3 has a lot of 3D features which can be considered a good cross-section of features in most new 3D games out there. Personally, I haven't played a 3D game on my PC for months now. My favorite PC games at the moment are 2D strategy and/or role-playing games. High-performance processors can improve game responsiveness, but they're definitely not required. And besides, how do you measure 2D game "responsiveness" anyway? <I'm still trying to find the "memory bandwidth" program so I can try it myself.> Why don't you find for us *ANY* program that you use yourself which absolutely positively needs a 1 GHz processor or faster? All this FUD over Pentium 4 having "unbalanced" performance characteristics is nonsense if you only run spreadsheets, or if you can't tell the difference between 56 and 60 frames per second. Tenchusatsu