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Subject: Re: So um, who here works for Intel?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 18:58:13 05/08/02

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On May 08, 2002 at 19:49:35, Slater Wold wrote:

>On May 08, 2002 at 18:32:54, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>
>>>It depends on the version of Quake3, which timedemo you are running and which
>>>video quality settings you are running. Here's a screenshot of my box in
>>>low-quality+low-res, the timedemo "four", under Quake3 v1.30 with my AMD
>>>optimized DLL's.
>>>
>>>ftp://speedycpu.dyndns.org/pub/overclockstuff/pics/athlonxp/q3-four.jpg
>>>
>>>Yes, there is an Intel lurker about. :) I can't quite remember what his name
>>>was, Art? Something like that. Nice fellow.. just working for the wrong company.
>>>:)
>>
>>Do I miss something? Is AMD a religion or a processor manufacturer?
>>
>>:)
>>
>>J.
>
>Looking at forums, and other sites around the internet, I am starting to believe
>it's a religon.
>
>I have owned 4 AMD systems in a row now, and I think they are good chips, but
>man, people out there who have never owned any other computer except their Duron
>800 think that there is NO life outside of AMD.
>
>Just like people and their Macs.
>
>Very strange.

Used to be, people and their Macs.  Not much anymore.  Back at the time of CCT1,
I had one of the fastest single cpu systems around.  Hard to believe, now.

http://www.vrichey.de/cct1/

Will




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