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Date:	Sat, 22 May 2004 07:16:45 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: AGP card question

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Tom Brown wrote:

> I am certainly no expert on this, but from what I understand, most of
> the extra speed, memory, etc. that is present in the current video cards
> is most useful if you are playing high performance games, especially
> online or at LAN parties and such. I read Maximum PC magazine, mostly to
> learn about the bleeding edge hardware that they review as soon as it
> rears it's head. The June, 2004 issue contains "Our Most Complete
> Videocard Technology Guide - EVER." You might want to grab a copy for
> educational purposes. :-)

Thanks for the suggestion on that, Tom.

> If you are like me and 1) don't play extreme games and 2) don't run
> Windoze, the 8X AGP stuff is probably vast overkill.

Ah, but I think there may be a grey area: what about video app.s ? And I
do
run Windoze, sometimes. (Maybe SVISTA will change that, if and when they
get it up to the performance level and reliability of the former VPC |
Connectix
solution.)

Jordan

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