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Re: Real Release date....

#567
From: K6-266
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 00:00
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Hey try overclocking the thing to 233mhz.  A friend of mine has one and it
tears things up  
even better.

Reuben King <REMOVETH...@texas.net> wrote in article
<MPG.ea01d80c...@news.texas.net>...
> 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: "K6-266" <jon...@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Real Release date....
Date: 1997/10/07
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