Holland
Jim Walsh wrote:
>
> Holland,
>
> 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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