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Old July 17th 04, 02:49 AM
Michael Brown
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Larry Gagnon wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:05:39 +0000, Byron Hinson wrote:

Currently I am on a AMD 2100+ CPU system, with Radeon 9600XT
graphics card - I get about 3700 mark in 3D Mark 2003. I am
considering buying a PC that has an AMD 64 3000+ chip in it - will
I notice a major performance jump?


Not unless you switch to Linux! ;-)


Actually, he'll notice a big performance drop if he goes to Linux. ATI's
Linux drivers are absolutely hopeless. Instant lockups on my SMP system,
memory leaks and terrible performance (9800SE runs UT only marginally faster
than a GF2MX) on my uniprocessor system, and they don't have any 64-bit
drivers. So, yeah, ATI + 32-bit Linux = bad, ATI + 64-bit Linux = no go

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