[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sun Sep 9 18:45:41 CDT 2007


On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:27:54PM -0700, Geoff Reed wrote:
> I saw a video card recently that had a GPU running around 700 MHz(IIRC) and
> 1 GB of DDR ram on it ?!?!??!?!

Yep.  More and more stuff offloaded to the GPU every day.  In fact, some
3D effects companies have software that renders on the *GPU* instead of the
main machine CPU - as its more powerful / faster at math.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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