Does the Pentium MMX Live up to the Expectations?

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By Thomas Pabst
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Dos Games

The new Pentium MMX hardly shows any improvement for DOS Gamers. An increase of 2.5% is hardly worth mentioning. Even the other new architecture improvements of the Pentium MMX besides the MMX extension don't bring us much of a difference in games like Quake or DukeNukem.

Hence DOS gamers will have to hope for games to soon use the MMX instructions or they happily can stick to their good old Pentium Classics.

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Thomas Pabst
2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Super_Nova
    Can it play Crysis?
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  • remingtonh
    Crysis was designed to take full advantage of the NEW MMX instructions. Intel MMX technology - see it, hear it, experience it.
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