Take a 733MHz P-III + 10GB HD + a GF4 Ti4200 (or an OC'd GF3 Ti500) + an nForce based motherboard + 64MB of RAM + a DVD-Rom and you've got a X-Box... So, in response to your post... it's exactly the same.
I'm Spanish and I think I've got the answers to your questiones (well, at least, I'll try;-) ). Here, finding a job isn't that easy (it took my girlfriend almost a year to find a job), but the worst part of it, is that Telefonica (here, we call it "Timofonica", who is something like "cheat-fonica") owns Sintel. And... do you know who owns Telefonica?. Yes, the goberment.
I don't know if you stand a chance in winnig a case against your gob' there, but here you don't have any...
So, they should get a job. Agreed, but if they want their money back......they should do something to make the goverment move, and, damn, they owe them months of payment...
Don't buy Creative DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW drives!. Ever!. I know lots of people who bought Creative drives and all of them died (the drives, of course...;-) ) just after the guarantee expired. "What to buy then?". If you want a good reliable DVD drive, go and buy a Pioneer one, as also they're cheaper (at least in Spain). I have one of these and it rocks...
Has no one thought of NVidia supporting Glide?. Yes, I know half of you are thinking that Glide sucks, but think of it...
It is fast and it is supported in Linux/Windoze/Dos. In fact it could become the standard everyone is waiting for (besides OpenGL that is too slow compared to Glide and Direct3D that is even worse).
PS => I've got to say that I do not own a 3dfx gfx card: I own a Matrox G400 (and I'm very happy with it), so you can't say I'm biassed.
I think that MPG4 compressors are the best benchmark tools out there, because the MPG4 algorithm is very FPU intensive (dct and similar algorithms implied), it also uses integer arithmetics (used for scaling) and requires high chipset bandwidth (memory/disc/DVD) because of the size of the source file/s. Also it has to decompress the MPG2 source, which is said to require at least a 400MHz CPU to be real-time.
As you can see, the process could stress any processor out there (no matter the speed), and it gives overall performance results.
As a last note, Flask could be used to recompress MPG1 and MPG2 files that are *legal* (anybody out there has a capture card?). Also, what if he owns DVD discs? It's legal to recompress them...
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Take a 733MHz P-III + 10GB HD + a GF4 Ti4200 (or an OC'd GF3 Ti500) + an nForce based motherboard + 64MB of RAM + a DVD-Rom and you've got a X-Box...
So, in response to your post... it's exactly the same.
Isn't their location on the PCBs supposed to be of any help in this case? ;-)
I'm Spanish and I think I've got the answers to your questiones (well, at least, I'll try ;-) ). ...they should do something to make the goverment move, and, damn, they owe them months of payment...
Here, finding a job isn't that easy (it took my girlfriend almost a year to find a job), but the worst part of it, is that Telefonica (here, we call it "Timofonica", who is something like "cheat-fonica") owns Sintel. And... do you know who owns Telefonica?. Yes, the goberment. I don't know if you stand a chance in winnig a case against your gob' there, but here you don't have any...
So, they should get a job. Agreed, but if they want their money back...
Don't buy Creative DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW drives!. Ever!. ;-) ) just after the guarantee expired.
I know lots of people who bought Creative drives and all of them died (the drives, of course...
"What to buy then?". If you want a good reliable DVD drive, go and buy a Pioneer one, as also they're cheaper (at least in Spain). I have one of these and it rocks...
Has no one thought of NVidia supporting Glide?. Yes, I know half of you are thinking that Glide sucks, but think of it...
It is fast and it is supported in Linux/Windoze/Dos. In fact it could become the standard everyone is waiting for (besides OpenGL that is too slow compared to Glide and Direct3D that is even worse).
PS => I've got to say that I do not own a 3dfx gfx card: I own a Matrox G400 (and I'm very happy with it), so you can't say I'm biassed.
I think that MPG4 compressors are the best benchmark tools out there, because the MPG4 algorithm is very FPU intensive (dct and similar algorithms implied), it also uses integer arithmetics (used for scaling) and requires high chipset bandwidth (memory/disc/DVD) because of the size of the source file/s. Also it has to decompress the MPG2 source, which is said to require at least a 400MHz CPU to be real-time. As you can see, the process could stress any processor out there (no matter the speed), and it gives overall performance results.
As a last note, Flask could be used to recompress MPG1 and MPG2 files that are *legal* (anybody out there has a capture card?). Also, what if he owns DVD discs? It's legal to recompress them...
PS => Sorry 'bout my poor English.