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Article #86758Re: Dual 900s for Doom III?
From: Michael-NC
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:00
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:00
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Dual CPU machines need to have _software_ that's designed to run on a multi processor machine, otherwise one processor sits there like an unemployed bum feeding pigeons in the park. Sorry. Quake 3 was actually one of a few of extremely rare gaming apps that did happen to utilize MP machines but I don't think D3 does. Try to Google it. "Dave Bushnell" <batcave@dma.net> wrote in message news:ed43b689.0408101542.4ea47519@posting.google.com... > Hi folks -- > > Sorry, not too much of a techie in this area - I have a machine with > dual Pentium III 900mhz processors. Do you think that will meet the > spec for Doom III? It has a GEForce 5200 graphics gard, which I > realize is not killer but other forums seem to feel it will keep up. > > Any thoughts on the processor power? > > Thanks! > > -- Dave
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!feed1.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!c03.atl99!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!twister.southeast.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Michael-NC" <NoAddress@desolate.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom References: <ed43b689.0408101542.4ea47519@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Dual 900s for Doom III? Lines: 24 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: <Z4fSc.190970$tH1.9321035@twister.southeast.rr.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:00:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.74.21.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.southeast.rr.com 1092189625 24.74.21.145 (Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:00:25 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:00:25 EDT Organization: RoadRunner - Carolina Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit