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To: Gary Spiers who wrote (43)	1/24/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

There seems to be a consensus forming for high end video cards and lots of RAM. I spent the day with a master computer trouble shooter today. After he solved my problem I picked his brain a little. He said the best way to improve performance is with lots of fast RAM, a high end video card and fast pipeline cache. He said processor speed is more task specific. If you are doing very very extensive calculations or, high end graphics applications processor speed will make a difference. They also build their own computers for their in-house applications. They do not get much increase in performance at CPU speeds above 133. They also do not make any MMX recommendations. He said MMX mostly is for gamers at the moment. The system I use at work processes a lot more data than internet stock applications IMHO. It is a real time data acquisition system. There are three computers networked on a boat. We gather, record and display 900 soundings per second. We also gather and record the 3 dimensional position of the boat using GPS, gyroscope and heave pitch and roll corrections. The data is displayed real time, We get a 3D view of the bottom as we go. This is done with a P166 and it has no trouble keeping up. Regards, Zeuspaul