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From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 2 Mar 2010 04:05

Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :)

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From: VanguardLH on 2 Mar 2010 05:30
Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote:

> Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :)

Um, other than games, just what software pushes the envelope to prod users
to buy more powerful hardware? You think you need that 3GHz dual- or
quad-core processor with 4GB, or more, of system memory to run a word
processor (when then used to run back in DOS in under 640K on old P1
processors running at 100MHz)? You think PC sales having bleeding edge
maxed out hardware is driven by users of AutoCAD or video editing programs?
Games push for more powerful hardware and games are what draw consumers to
pay for that more powerful hardware.
From: yaugin on 2 Mar 2010 09:03
On Mar 2, 2:30 am, VanguardLH <V...(a)nguard.LH> wrote:
> Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote:
>
> > Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :)
>
> Um, other than games, just what software pushes the envelope to prod users
> to buy more powerful hardware?

If you consider his question more carefully, that's what he was asking.
From: GT on 2 Mar 2010 09:49
> "yaugin" <yaugin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 2, 2:30 am, VanguardLH <V...(a)nguard.LH> wrote:
> > Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote:
> >
> > > Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :)
> >
> > Um, other than games, just what software pushes the envelope to prod
> > users
> > to buy more powerful hardware?
>
> If you consider his question more carefully, that's what he was asking.

And if you consider his reply more carefully, he is agreeing!


From: John McGaw on 2 Mar 2010 09:52
No. Not nearly enough power for me. I run two i7, one Q6600, and an old P4
24X7 as part of a distributed processing project supporting medical and
energy research. I could use much more speed from my machines. Or more
machines but my electric bills would surely suffer then.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp

On 3/2/2010 4:05 AM, Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote:
>
> Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :)
>

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