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- In <Pine.SUN.3.91.950115010855.7853B-100000@gaspra.pd.com> Ernie Wright <ernie@gaspra.pd.com> writes:
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- >A 33MHz 386DX with a math coprocessor is going to be about as fast
- >as a GVP 33/030 Amiga, and unless you've been spoiled by much faster
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- You must come from a very special place with unusually fast Pee Cee
- math chips. My experimentation has placed the performance of a 387DX33
- on a par with a 25MHz 68881. Modeler might be a little smoother, but
- render times are nothing short of abysmal.
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- >You'll probably want an improved video card--the $99 Diamond Speed-
- >Star is pretty good as a 386 upgrade. 16 megs of RAM is good to
- >have too, but since Windows has built-in virtual memory, you might
- >not need it right away. If you plan to buy a new computer someday,
- >you might want to buy the new monitor now.
-
- A display card isn't going to have a significant performance impact
- except in modeller and layout; and certainly not a SpeedStar. The memory
- thing is not something to fool with if you have a slower processor. If it
- needs memory (and it needs a whole lot), you don't want to be thrashing
- your hard drive to death.
- 386 machines are dead and no amount of rationalization is going to fix
- that. Given enough time, they can render the animations just like any
- other machine, but forget about playing them back.
-
- Lee Bosch
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