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• Dunnuhnuhduh nuhdunuhnuh teh GoBots teh GoBots... : Vorlonesque

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  the 533 does make a good amount of difference. Nothing earth shattering mind you, but anywhere between 1... : pimpium
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    Totally agreed, www.tomshardware.com - his P4 2.4 review he overclocks a 1.8 -> 2.4 but with 533 bus (ra... : abrasion
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      Yep, i only have P4's as its easier to get and cheaper where i work. As long as i can run my games at a ... : pimpium
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        I'd prefer AMD to support the under-dog, people claim that "AMD IS KICKING INTEL NOW" in some threads bu : abrasion
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          Didnt i read some where about the 8cracked cores* thing being fixed int he next release of theirs? I tho... : pimpium
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            Cracked cores will be fixed in the Opteron as it has a heat spreader. The new .13 AMD does not, they ... : abrasion
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              of course you don't need 64bit right _now_ but you will, just like 128Mb vid cards wasn't needed but if ... : Turd Ferguson
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                I notice SOF2 doesn't like high high detail textures,... however ever heard of texture compression (spec... : abrasion
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                  The vast bulk of games today are still doing 2 or 3 texture passes. Quake 3 does 4. Doom does 10. Yo... : johnny rotten
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                    "Doom does 10" Well in 16bit I will, I see NONE in 32bit, perhaps in 32bit in Doom I will see as much... : abrasion
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                      final display never needs to be more than 32bit, all that matters is that internal precision is raised s... : goatsecxy
                      • Well we agree 100% :) I was 99% sure of this, but yeah - I don't think spotting the diff on a 64bit o... : abrasion
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                      I asked him. =) He's actually pretty good about answering brief tech questions if he doesnt have to ty... : johnny rotten
                      • (fuck) The first couple gens of '64 bit cards will dither down to 32 bit until performance can ramp u... : johnny rotten
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                        See goatsecxy's post, why would 32bit external make a diff over 64bit? I mean seriously if the image ... : abrasion
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                          truely lossless fast compression? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA do you know how compression works? : TheTick
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                            err the problem is ram bandwidth, not cpu or gpu cycles, therefore the *FAST* past isn't an oxy moron. ... : abrasion
                            • yes i have...you forget we've had this discussion before...and i won last time too :-p : TheTick
                            • S3TC has quality loss : Turd Ferguson
                        • No such thing as 'lossless' compression. =) Look I know what you mean, and from a practical standpoi... : johnny rotten
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                      of course you dont see any YET...we only do a couple of passes...try doing 5 times as many i find it ... : TheTick
                      • "of course you dont see any YET...we only do a couple of passes...try doing 5 times as many" We are t : abrasion
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                  you don't notice problems in 16 bit with War3 because Blizzard always caters to extreme low-end graphics... : goatsecxy
                  • You may well have a good point here (dunno) still if you look at War 3 it's a very colourful nice lookin... : abrasion
        • They could drop prices and put them out of business. A trick from Standard and Oil. But that is agains... : handofthrawn

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  yeah, that was funny. : jackalope
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    I know god, I was a whiner myself on the Geforce - I'm like "WTF IS THIS SHIT" - then it came out, now t... : abrasion
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      You mean "GheyForce" I remember people calling it that :). : Vorlonesque
      • Yeah me too, but now it commands respect, as will Opteron :) : abrasion
• yea and who knows, "Attack of the Clones" might turn out to be good :P Certianly looks a hell of a lot b... : phinn

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• NEVER!!!!!!!! : galvatron

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  Err no..... some games require little. Go and look at the C&C generals video or play War 3, Dungeon S... : abrasion
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    depends on your video settings I guess : jackalope
    • War 3 in a 6 player game in 16bit on a GF2 Ti 200 (not video limited) *WILL* slow down on a 1.4ghz Athlo... : abrasion

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• Haha, yeah, go sumo! exar : h0rus
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  I'm kinda not wanting to know how crippled a P4 with 128K of L2 would be. or maybe it'll be 256K, so : Toraz Chryx
  • 256k so basicly it IS just an early P4. : pimpium
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    I heard that, it's Willamette shit, not Northwood, the question is, is it .13 Willamette core or .13 Nor : abrasion
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      yep, when I bought my CeleryII 600 (November 2000) it was about $100 and I've been running it overclocke... : chjode
      • Well actually that sounds expensive ;) - A Celeron 900 and a P3-900 I would've thought would be like 120... : abrasion
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      Williamette core...256k cache, .13 process. : pimpium
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        So it's going to overclock a little higher, but maybe not as high as a Northwood. OR even if it DOES go... : abrasion
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          No, its not smart but when you are the only big name left running the budget segement since AMD is going... : pimpium
          • We will see the Willamette .13 like in 2 months max, when Intel release the 2.53 P4 with 533bus and the ... : abrasion

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• Buy a Dual-1Ghz G4 then. : Bagpuss
• http://www.r0x0rb0xes.com/main/cur/apr/index.html : jackalope

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• and an alien overlord would likely have superior technology, espcially in computers. thus, OPERTON!!! : jackalope

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• but, MarksmanX isn't here so that won't happen! : goatsecxy

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• Us Autobots don't like to talk about him. :) : Optimus Prime
• http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3496509 : nomaad

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• its down for me : Turd Ferguson
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  yeah i talked to kyle this morning about it... nothing major just some small technical stuff.. nothin to... : Steve Gibson
  • I swear this morning half the internet went down for whatever reason. Is the DNF demo going to be this ... : Optimus Prime

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• they announced the mobiles last week i think, the desktops should be showing up in previews fairly soon. : Turd Ferguson