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Article Discussions / Re: Open Office for eCS-OS/2 2.4 Beta1
« on: 2008.03.20, 07:34:45 »
Up until I switched out to a X1650 I had been using a Matrox G400Max in my gaming machine and it was actually performing quite well. (I had hacked the drivers to do some things they shouldn't). Though anytime a VIA (cyrix) chip beats anything in a benchmark it is a cold day in hell.
Well Robert, in light of CPUs like Intel's Quad Core Extreme, or even the "modest" Dual-Core e6850, my CPU is basically nothing more than a Casio Calculator Watch. Its sad when the VIA C7- (2.0ghz) [VIA CPUs are considered to be miserably slow by today's standards] beats my CPU out by 30,000 points in a benchmarking utility. I also have slooow RAM (PC2100, blegh) with no Dual-Channel support, and a slow FSB of 533mhz. I am also crippled by IDE and AGP 4x bus, all coming together to make a computer that gets larfed at by anything else around.
I don't do anything intensive under eCS, so I would hope that my (admittedly modest in modern times) hardware will be enough. I mean, I can run Crysis, F.E.A.R, Half-Life 2, etc etc, so I really get rather miffed when an office application takes longer to open than a high-end game like Team Fortress 2.
Call me crazy, I know, but still 
