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RCWar...@nospam.com (Richard Johnson) wrote:

>That just proves that you need a 3DFX voodoo card. Intel puts out 100
>versions of the Pentium chip and put out ads with those idiotic
>dancing guys in shiny suits. But the fact is who gives a shit about
>upgrading their pentium cpu anymore? No pentium cpu can do what a 3DFX
>card can. Also the MMX and AGP technologies are also bullshit.
>I have an Orchid Righteous 3D card with the 3DFX voodoo chip and Hexen
>2 has totally smooth sound and graphics with it.
>You also should have at least 32 megs ram for hexen 2.
>
>Thank god for 3DFX because we used to have to spend huge amounts of
>money for pentium upgrades and motherboard upgrades to run 3D games
>faster.
>
>

My isn't this post a wonderfully uninformed peice of drivel!  So in
several years you're still going to be using that P166?  No, you
won't, not for games.  Because the faster the processor gets, the more
computational power your computer has.  And the more computational
power, the more effects will be put in.  Like parametric curves and
fractal generated environments... these are all dependant on a
computer with a fast CPU.  THe 3DFX only accelerates rasterization...
of the stuff that the CPU calculates.  

Point in case, I put a Righteous 3d on a Cyrix P133+  (the old ones
with the REALLY bad FPU). It improves speed... but in areas that don't
have huge amounts of polygons.  You can see the framerate drop when it
gets into moderate areas, and just die in complex ones.  

And AGP is not bullshit.... calling AGP bullshit is somewhat like
calling a PCI motherboard bullshit... AGP is accelerated Graphics
Port.  Future video cards will plug into this instead of a PCI slot.
AGP accelerates it even further....

Next time put just a little thought into your posts ok?