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>It's a good idea to upgrade your <SPAN
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to <TT
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version of <SPAN
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consortium's (how corny) ftp site &#8211;
<A
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>ftp.xfree86.org/</A
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acceleration and increased performance for a large number of accelerated
cards and those with Nvidia cards are in luck for not only does
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most of their cards but Nvidia have made available high performance
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