Cause I've just been at Tom's hardware guide page - www.tomshardware.com - :o).
In Quake 2 optimized for 3DNow! the K6-2 300 MHz is faster than the Celeron 350
MHz. What's also interesting is that K6-2 300 MHz is almost twice as fast (87%)
as the K6 300 Mhz running Quake 2 with a Voodoo 2 card and 3DNow!. So in Quake 2
with 3Dfx and 3DNow! support the K6-2 300 MHz is as fast as a... K6 560 MHz
:o)... and I have a K6 200 MHz running the GPL demo just fine with only 3Dfx
:o).
Now I realize the 3DNow! boost in GPL propably wont be the same as the boost in
Quake 2, but even a 30% increase would be very nice :o). A K6-2 300 MHz would
then be as fast as a K6 400 MHz.
Papyrus, I want a K6 400 MHz, so if you give me 3DNow!, then I'll go and buy a
K6-2 300 MHz and a motherboard that I later can put a K6-3 400 MHz in :o))). I
wonder what that would be compared to my current K6 200 MHz :o). Just the
increase from 300 to 400 is 33%, so that would be around a K6 533 MHz, then the
extra cache... I guess I would be having a CPU three times faster than the one I
have today :o). Would that mean 90 frames per second instead of 30, or 60 frames
per second with every graphics option turned on :o)?
The Celeron seem to be easily overclocked to 400 MHz, even from 266 MHz, but
that's still a risk, and since I think most people dont overclock why not give
the K6-2 buyers that extra boost :o)?
/Christer
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has understood it the first time they've read it yet :o) )
Hi Christer,
We all want faster processors at lower costs.But since the human eye cannot feel the
difference between 30fps or 2000fps,save your money for later when your current
system will be running future games on less then 30fps.Then it will be the time for
the upgrade
