Doom 3 Benchmark under +4200 AMD 64 X2 - slower than 3000+

"Inglo" <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote in message
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> On 12/5/2005 3:16 PM McGrandpa brightened our day with:
>
>>"Inglo" <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote in message
>>news:c20lf.31069$Zv5.20011@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>>
>>>McGrandpa wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hey, how come you don't build you a X2 rig? You like having some old
>>>>fart guinea pig for ya {ducks flying books!}
>>>>McG.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Waiting for Vista, I guess. Don't know how much it will really improve
>>>things. I also want to buy an XBox360 whenever I can get one. That's my
>>>next main gaming purchase.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Steve -|Inglo/LymanAlpha|-
>>>
>>
>>Vista is better than XP x64?
>>McG.
>>
>>
> I don't know if it will be. Microsoft should have had the chance to do a
> lot of 64 bit design work on it though.
>
I dunno either. X64 was a double surprise. Half good half bad.
Outstanding speed, but not much in the way of peripheral driver support yet.
McG.

"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT.TakeThisOut@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Shawk" <shawk.TakeThisOut@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
> news:1133831304.1187.0@eunomia.uk.clara.net...
>>
>> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT.TakeThisOut@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:AR3lf.31925$Ox.15628@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>>>
>>>>
>>> jimbob?! Oh, it wasn't his auction! Ha! You don't think he'd of
>>> bought that, do ya? I mean *hoping* there might be something in it is
>>> one thing.....
>>> McG.
>>>
>>
>> Nah, Jimbob just pointed it out for us. The buyer is listed and reading
>> his feedback he's has done something similar before... and he came back
>> for seconds!?
>>
>
> Gah! Publicity hound! Must have a business, he was on the news on TV
> this morning.
> McG.
>

What type of business would be helped by having the owner on Tv admitting he
bought an empty box for $600?

Anyway - apols to you guys for hijacking the thread - watching it with
interest for my upgrade next year.... carry on....