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Article #707452Re: Backwards Compatiblity in $599 Xbox2
From: Skeksis
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:47
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:47
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Doug Jacobs <dja...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in news:113ub...@corp.supernews.com: > Bah. SLI is a waste of money. The last time SLI was around, a year or > so later, a new card came out with more power on a single card than > you got with SLI - not to mention the fact that SLI went away when AGP > came about... Ugh, what a bad idea that was. I can't believe people > were willing to spend upwards of a thousand dollars on their video > system, when you were still seeing exponential improvements every 6 to > 9 months. What gets me about SLI, at least based on the card I spotted at my local Best Buy, is that you have to lose *4* slots to run it. Maybe I am behind the times but I do not have a dedicated gaming rig and work machine, I use one machine for all tasks and it has all slots filled as it is now. Skeksis
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.adelphia.com!news.adelphia.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:47:06 -0600 Newsgroups: alt.games.halo,alt.games.video.xbox,alt.video.games.xbox,alt.xbox.discussion,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,microsoft.public.xbox,microsoft.public.xbox.games,microsoft.public.xbox.halo,microsoft.public.xbox.live,uk.games.video.xbox Subject: Re: Backwards Compatiblity in $599 Xbox2 From: Skeksis <n...@na.com> References: <O_idnTPCKaXPYarfRVn-tg@comcast.com> <rn2g31p0v6j5659acscivjogueu1e4bu1h@4ax.com> <Ou#r3KFLFHA.3340@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl> <113ubhv5i031u33@corp.supernews.com> Organization: Your Company Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Message-ID: <q8idnfXgJOU3aqLfRVn-vQ@adelphia.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:47:06 -0600 Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.162.218.130 X-Trace: sv3-2WYctZIY/7mHoJ65QEZonxYPSDV5ZwtRnEUkbYrlRsrevUQsfSIUyaRwQ6UG08XP22UjER0L/h+gK7Q!EC1UX8r2fUDo8VPFiRIjeiJCD07HpOP34P3gOW2RpstG6bks1eeIyT9W0tk6qs4pcqigfUcqm8Jo!zNd9deyGvS1hPXI3Sb9f/Do= X-Complaints-To: ab...@adelphia.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: copy...@adelphia.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit