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So the Hurricane chip on the Fiji has nothing to do with VR?
So what card should I get? CL 64 Gold, CL 128 PCI, TB Montego or TB
Fiji?
Jim
Holland St.John wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> The Fiji is a good card because of flat frequency response and low noise
> in the input circuits. There is no extra processing on the card that
> helps with recognition (there are lots of other extra chips that help
> with music production, mixing, etc, but those are irrelevant to VR).
>
> The Fiji will take some of the load off the CPU because the CPU has less
> noise to deal with, and therefore Nat and the CPU can "decide" easier
> which words to display.
>
> Holland
>
> Jim Walsh wrote:
> >
> > I am a bit confused. I just bought a PII 400 w/256 ECC SDRAM with a
> > 7,200 EIDE Seagate drive. I am considering buying the TB Fiji card. My
> > thinking is that the Fiji has a built in processor which may assist the
> > PII in some of the processing. Will the extra processor be a benefit?
> > What about the MMX instructions? Anyone have a clue?
> >
> > Robinson, Robert wrote:
> > >
> > > Our experience with both NS (not including BestMatch) and VV98 is that you
> > > can run the software with a P 200 with 128MB RAM, but it is slow. A Pentium
> > > II 400MHz with 256MB RAM does much better but CPU utilization during speech
> > > processing is still "100%".
> > > Robert Robinson
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