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Mad Dog · 08-10-2001, 01:23 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gerard:
Mad dog you are wrong. A cpu is the basic horsepower of any pc not every graphics cards supports hardware t&l like nvidia's geforce boards. I have a 1.33ghz thunderbird and a voodoo 5 since upgrading to the thunderbird games have been running a hell of a lot smoother.

Quake 3 is a gamewhere most graphics cards drop fps because they are fillrate limited. However with a good cpu the graphics card can offload the excess amount of work for the cpu todo.

You are only as good as your cpu when it comes down to it your graphics card even with Hardware t&l support still needs the cpu for other computations.

[This message has been edited by Gerard (edited August 10, 2001).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Of course, you are correct yes if you have a Moderate video card and a high-end proccessor then yes the proccessor will have the biggest affect. Although it depends on what video card and how much Ram and what kind of RAM you have.

What i'm trying to say is that Ladmo is full of shit. You'd need AT LEAST a 1.4 athlon and a GeForce 3 to run Max Payne with everything as high as it can be.

[This message has been edited by Mad Dog (edited August 10, 2001).]

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Mad Dog is Offline Senior Member Posts: 191 Join Date: Jan 2002	08-10-2001, 01:23 AM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gerard: Mad dog you are wrong. A cpu is the basic horsepower of any pc not every graphics cards supports hardware t&l like nvidia's geforce boards. I have a 1.33ghz thunderbird and a voodoo 5 since upgrading to the thunderbird games have been running a hell of a lot smoother. Quake 3 is a gamewhere most graphics cards drop fps because they are fillrate limited. However with a good cpu the graphics card can offload the excess amount of work for the cpu todo. You are only as good as your cpu when it comes down to it your graphics card even with Hardware t&l support still needs the cpu for other computations. [This message has been edited by Gerard (edited August 10, 2001).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Of course, you are correct yes if you have a Moderate video card and a high-end proccessor then yes the proccessor will have the biggest affect. Although it depends on what video card and how much Ram and what kind of RAM you have. What i'm trying to say is that Ladmo is full of shit. You'd need AT LEAST a 1.4 athlon and a GeForce 3 to run Max Payne with everything as high as it can be. [This message has been edited by Mad Dog (edited August 10, 2001).]