[geeks] PC-BIOS over serial

[Phil Stracchino]

On 09/10/10 15:32, nate at portents.com wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:06:09 -0400, Phil Stracchino<alaric at metrocast.net>
> wrote:
>> Anyone happen to know how well typical Atom machines do for
>> low-to-midrange (i.e, nowhere near the bleeding edge) gaming?  Assume
>> that the most demanding games any of the three are likely to be playing
>> are Civ4 or HALO.
>
> Most Atom boards have weak Intel integrated graphics that will barely play
> even older games.  The best boards will have NVIDIA GeForce 'Ion'
> (9300-class) graphics, which will just eek out playable framerates (above
> 20fps in some cases), but are to some extent also held back by Atom's CPU
> performance.  Atom CPUs are not Out-of-Order CPUs (think back to
> pre-Pentium Pro architecture x86).

Ack.  I didn't realize the Atom was quite that stripped-down.

 >  Those Atom Ion boards are also not
> cheap, between $145-180:

Yeah, that's not really going to fly.


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