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The future of Kyro II is bright... as long as their drivers programmers are bright. They could produce a very great card (like ATI Radeon), but if the drivers don't unlock the true power of the card (or are questionnably unstable), well, good bye bright features. I'm sure that people want a card...

XP needs special, Microsoft-certified, drivers to work with the OS... Well, they fear you with a huge warning explaining that you'll go to Hell when you die if you're not doing what they tell you. That's why they will distribute Microsoft-certified drivers on Microsoft-certified website (i.e...

Oh, by the way, you can always try to find a GLIDE Wrapper (or "emulator") on the Net. It emulates the GLIDE API via DirectX or OpenGL. It takes some cpu/gfx overhead, so the game will be slower, but at least it'll make run your old games with a current video card.

No, only Voodoo graphics cards are supporting GLIDE. It's a proprietary of 3Dfx (or at least of what's left of). Kyro II is made by STM if I remember... So, no luck. However, I would go for a 3D Prophet 4500 because the Voodoo^5 5500 is now officially unsupported 'cause nVidia bought all of 3Dfx...

You don't need to know what is AXIA if you don't plan to overclock. Well, you can know what it does, but it won't interest you. :P As you may know, not all 750s or 800s processors are the same. Some are made in different batchs, and some of 'em maybe even got some little modifications without...

Sony should be the best choice because the image quality is one of the highest... and I think that you don't see the two CRT tube lines in the screen (can someone confirm that?). However, why don't you get a 17" or 19"? It should be more confortable for your eyes.

Well, AGP4X can do a major difference in HEAVILLY texturised games when a large amount of textures must reside in RAM... Then again, it's mostly 3D Design OpenGL stuff that uses that much textures, so you shouldn't really worry about AGP4X.

Hmm... I've played a lot with ASUS CUV4X where I work and they all support AGP4X... I've tried also GeForce2 GTS with them, and it was working well, so I don't see why a Ultra wouldn't work at AGP4X with that... However, as it's a VIA chipset, you must be SURE to download the lastest drivers at...

Just a comment... The Matrox G450 is almost the same as G400, except that the G450 has a smaller die size (.18µ instead of .25µ) and it *could* be clockerd higher, but I don't remember quite well... So if the FPS of your friend suck in a game with a G400, good chances that it'll suck as much...

vickertj, it depends if AMD decides to change the pinout of the Palomino (like the P4 Northwood compared to the P4 Willamette)... If they change the Socket-A to something like Socket-A2, well, just too bad, all current motherboards will be obsolete. However, if AMD will do only a CORE upgrade...

You want to get FPS scores of YOUR machine, or FPS scores in those game? For Quake, there's a built-in function for that... and as Half-Life is based on the Quake engine (Q2 specifically), there should be a function like that somewhere (but I don't know what it is... Sorry). As for Thief 2, I...

AMD THUNDERBIRD K7 1000MHZ(1GHZ) 3D AMD THUNDERBIRD K7 1000MHZ(1GHZ) AMD THUNDERBIRD 1000MHZ(1GHZ) ...Where did you got that? Because all Thunderbirds have 3DNow! instructions and they are all based on the K7 core (named Athlon). I think that all these CPUs are the same... They should be all...

For this line... A0800AMT3B A: Athlon Core 800MHz 0800: 800MHz A: PGA package P: 1.3V voltage (or 1.4, I don't remember Duron's voltage) T: Max operational temperature is 90°C 3: 192KB of cache memory B: 200MHz FSB The rest is serial numbers (Well, I suppose) ADFA0039GPLW 93039370028 1999 AMD...

I have some problems to overclock my new, shiny MSI K7T Pro-2A with my Athlon Thunderbird 750. When I choose a Frequency Multiplier, the .5 gives always 7.5x and the .0 gives 7.0. So, when I choose 9.0x, I actually underclock my computer to 700MHz. Wow. I don't know if there is any benefit to...

I don't believe that no ones runs under Windows 2000 with a VIA KT7 chipset (or an ASUS A7Pro/A7V) with the 4-in-1 drivers... At least, if you don't want to help me, post a message saying that you don't care of my problem... :)