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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Wormie on July 27, 1999, 07:42:00 PM

Title: 3DNow!/SSE/SMP
Post by: Wormie on July 27, 1999, 07:42:00 PM

Since I am starting to think about getting some new parts for my PC I am wondering if there is any benifit to getting a New Athlon for it's 3D Now! support a PII for it's SSE or getting a Dual CPU setup and Win 2K?

I'm torn between hoping a Celeron with a huge heatsink OC'd to the Max will do just as good as a high end set up and thinking what could they do if 3D Now!/SSE and SMP were supported.

Wormie

Title: 3DNow!/SSE/SMP
Post by: fats on July 27, 1999, 09:05:00 PM

like I am sure you know, you can have dual Celerons as well.

I have a dual PII box, and it's not *that* big difference using just a TNT to play Q3ATest. I guess it could help more if I had a faster card.


~/fats

Title: 3DNow!/SSE/SMP
Post by: Jinx on July 28, 1999, 07:06:00 AM

I hope AH will be multithreaded. As soon as W2k is established, my guess is that SMP will be the norm. I’m running a dual celeron hack on Slot-1 now, but with the Abit BP6 motherboard out as a cheap dual for PPGA it’s easy and much more affordable.

  -Jinx