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Which Combinaison is the fastest?

Guy Cot

Which Combinaison is the fastest?

by Guy Cot » Sat, 11 Jan 1997 04:00:00

I will buy a new PC this month and i want to know which combinaison
microprocesor/megRam is the fastest for playing Nascar2 and GP2.

        For example: pentium 100 and 64MegRam
                           OR
                     pentium 133 and 32MegRam  
                           OR
                     pentium 166 and 16MegRam
I'm asking this question because the first combinaison cost less than the
third one.

Thank you !!

Guy Cote

Eric T. Busc

Which Combinaison is the fastest?

by Eric T. Busc » Sat, 11 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Buy the fastest processor you can afford.  You can always add more RAM
down the road, but for starters I'd say 32megs is the absolute minimum.
 Save a bit and go for a P166 (preferably an MMX) and 32megs of RAM if
you can.  There's no sense buying a CPU any slower than that.

--

Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/


David Thompso

Which Combinaison is the fastest?

by David Thompso » Sat, 11 Jan 1997 04:00:00


> I will buy a new PC this month and i want to know which combinaison
> microprocesor/megRam is the fastest for playing Nascar2 and GP2.

>         For example: pentium 100 and 64MegRam
>                            OR
>                      pentium 133 and 32MegRam
>                            OR
>                      pentium 166 and 16MegRam
> I'm asking this question because the first combinaison cost less than the
> third one.

Yes, the first combo is cheaper because of lower ram prices... however,
the third option is by far the best.  Nascar relys heavily on processor
/ video card speed.  Once you have 16mb Ram, anything above is mostly
used for saving larger replays.  Speed is what will determine video
frame rates.

Another option is to go with the 133 and a Verite based 3D accelerator
(made by Creative Labs, Intergraph, Sierra...) , this may actually prove
faster for Nascar 2 than the 166, but slower for practically anything
else (including GP2 i suppose)that is not written specifically for the
Vertite cards.  So, I would recommend getting the fastest processor your
money can buy, then upgrade the video card / ram later on.  Hope it
helps.

dglenn

Patrick Davi

Which Combinaison is the fastest?

by Patrick Davi » Sat, 11 Jan 1997 04:00:00

It's more easy to upgrade memory and cheaper. Go for the 166!

Pat Davis

Tom Hanse

Which Combinaison is the fastest?

by Tom Hanse » Sat, 11 Jan 1997 04:00:00

The 3rd combination - but it depends on video card, RAM speed (60 vs.
70ns), cache size (0,256,512) etc.  However, in Windows 95 and Window NT,
the 16 meg system will suffer greatly with excessive demand paging to/from
disk.

/THansen


Jim Sokolo

Which Combinaison is the fastest?

by Jim Sokolo » Sun, 12 Jan 1997 04:00:00



The flip side of that is that if you buy a good motherboard (that can
take a drop in 166+), a P100 is only ~$100 right now. So you could
upgrade the processor later quite easily also and only have tossed out
a $100 chip (but you'll have gotten the use of it in the interim...)

---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus


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