Re: Upgrade Recommendations Needed For Gaming

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From: no... Nearly Normal Norman
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <O88SFBAt...@jrca.demon.co.uk>, "Julian Anderson (Southend
on Sea, Essex, Gt. Britain)" <jr...@demon.co.uk> wrote:

> >What's the difference between VRAM and DRAM as far as games
> >are concerned ?
> >
> >John
> 
> 
> In a word, Speed ! (But only if the game is highly grahpical, SVGA etc.)
> -- 

Give it six months and VRAM based graphis cards will be a thing of the
past. the price/performance trade off isn't really worth it, compared to
the speed boosts you can get from graphics accelerators using 128 bit
buses and EDO DRAM.

-- 
Selah.

Norm

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From: no...@orbit.demon.co.uk (Nearly Normal Norman)
Subject: Re: Upgrade Recommendations Needed For Gaming
Date: 1995/09/28
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