[H-GEN] Wanted to buy

[Frank Brand]

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Yup, and there is a great deal of difference between 1. Can do it and 2. Can
do it at an acceptable level of performance as you rightly point out. That
is true of anything but is doubly, triply, ten-fold true of the latest
games. Whenever I build computers I never guarantee that they will run any
game because of game companies lack of consideration for hardware
differences. Often they just wipe their hands of user difficulties...read
the appropriate news groups and see what I mean.



>an S3 will be fine, but he'll need to find a voodoo 2 to use with it. the
>older S3 cards are 2d only, and for gaming you definitely want something
>that can display in 3d. also, depending on which games your friend wants to
>play, a pentium 200 just won't cut it. I play (or rather try to play) the
>latest games on my K6-2-400 and sometimes the system lag is just too much.
>I doubt he'll be able to play anything more recent than quake 3, and that
>not well. Unfortunately if you want to play windoze games, you need a top
>of the line system. Sad but true :-(



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