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Re: Real Release date....

#566
From: REMOVETH... Reuben King
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. 
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 

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From: REMOVETH...@texas.net (Reuben King)
Subject: Re: Real Release date....
Date: 1997/10/04
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