Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 22:17 UTC
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2006-06-21
You mean video cards, takes at least two now to run a decent looking desktop with full effect and at least two cores to still have enough horsepower left to get something done behind it all.
Not if you're running Linux it doesn't. You can have all these cool effects, if you want them, working smoothly on a good old single core AMD XP 1,5 GHz CPU and a GeForce4 video card. And most of the work is done by the GPU so it leaves plenty of power for regular work.