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Article #566Re: Real Release date....
From: REMOVETH... Reuben King
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 00:00
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You're crazy! My PPro 180 machine tears stuff up! It has at least 2 or 3 years left in it before it starts warranting being ditched. In article <01bcd09a$919da520$0bff1ace@default>, dra...@cyberhighway.net says... > I would personally recommend ditching your PPro. They aren't bad, but you > could do better. Wait another month or two before gettin a new CPU. I am > sure the prices will keep droppin. Correct me if I am wrong, but you can > get a MMX 200 for around $250 now. Not a bad deal, but make sure your > motherboard can handle it. > > Stone <DONTSP...@dwx.com> wrote in article > <3435655B...@dwx.com>... > > First of all, if you read blues news ( http://bluesnews.com/ )on a daily > > basis, you'd see that the column about the release date for 98' (I bet > > you read that in Next Generation =-) was a goof-up. Quake2 WILL be > > released before January. Come hell or high water =-) > > > > As for the hardware questions, the Monster3d will rock on Quake2, and > > the Pure3d will be just downright sublime, with 4 megs of dedicated > > texture memory and 2 megs of frame buffer, the Pure3d will SCREAM!! > > > > Both cards will cost about $200 each, a very worthwhile investment. > > Its of course recommended to have atleast 32 megs of ram which should > > run just fine ( i still want to upgrade to 64 though, lucky bastard!). > > And ANY Intel Pentium based chipset of atleast 100Mhz should run pretty > > smooth, but of course its recommended to have atleast a 150 or 200. > > > > Thats the facts....enjoy =-) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > st...@dwx.com irc.pseudo.com #pseudo > > Remove the DONTSPAM from my address when emailing. > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Reuben King, another Bitter Little Bastard(tm) (CASHP #18-97) To respond via email: Remove "REMOVETHIS" from above email or: "reuben[at]texas[dot]net" (Clealy sir, spam-bots suck.)
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From: REMOVETH...@texas.net (Reuben King) Subject: Re: Real Release date.... Date: 1997/10/04 Message-ID: <MPG.ea01d80cab8eaa19899c1@news.texas.net> X-Deja-AN: 278341620 References: <61169k$6ke@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <MPG.e9ddb4391b50c309899b5@news.texas.net> <3435655B.FC323E1E@dwx.com> <01bcd09a$919da520$0bff1ace@default> Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit