[CUBE] cube lust

[Richard Clark]

actually the only gripe i have with my 450 is that when i need to 
export 3000 digital photographs from iphoto i get 100 percent cpu usage 
and it bogs down everything
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:51 AM, Riba wrote:

>>> My 450MHz still serve me perfectly well. I will get the CPU upgrade 
>>> just because it will eventually be affordable, not because i need 
>>> it. What kind of intensive computations are all you people doing on 
>>> your cubes??
>>>
>> Games. It's all about the games. If not for Diablo II, Unreal 
>> Tournament and Quake3, I'd not even consider the CPU upgrade. My 
>> 500mHz stock chip is plenty fast for most other stuff.
>
> I used to love playing a game or two. Then I used Playstation II for 
> that stuff and realized they are much better over there. Then PS II 
> died, and just recently it occured to me that I haven't been playing 
> any games for quite a while now, the Radeon doesn't even get a prper 
> workout with its passive heatsink anymore :) I guess lack of time.
>
> I mean, for a price of GF3 you can get one hell of a game console that 
> will beat any upgraded cube out there. Or just get a PC :)
>
>
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