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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (4052)	12/10/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: halfscot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave: Thanx for the feedback. Right now I'm not really seeing that much degradation to warrant going, just yet, to a new card. I'll probably have to buy a game that consistently uses up the capacity of the G200 before I'll switch, especially in light of your revelation that they'll be releasing .25 micron chips in early '99. This leads to another question. Right now I have an overclocked 300a running easily at 450 along with 128M of PC100 ram. If the current AGP TNT cards are able to run fps speeds of +60 w/Quake II, which is very demanding, in 800X600 mode, when 30fps is good enough for streaming video, then how long will this current technology carry gaming needs before wimping out below 30 fps? Am I clear? You see, I think my current 450 processor will be plenty good enough for almost all computing needs, including games, for the next few years. I can't see any off the shelf programs available now that could benefit that much more with more processing power than I now have. It's like the 'law of diminishing returns'. When is enough, enough? Or will it be more like the 'law' of 'build it and they will come'. In other words now that so much more power is available are the gaming cos. building games that will utilize even the upcoming technology to the max, much less the technology available now, because the most powerful games now can't get close to matching the power available in the current high-end video cards. Any thoughts? halfscot