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JustJosh I'm not sure this is going to make a huge difference in terms of performance. It's well known that graphics cards are more powerful than CPU's right now.
Windows 7 WARP system to allow for DirectX 10 CPU acceleration
Engadget —
We've already heard that Microsoft plans to make use of GPU acceleration in Windows 7, but it looks like the company is also going to be doing its part for the GPU-less out there, with the OS's new so-called WARP system promising to allow for DirectX 10 acceleration using nothing more than a plain old CPU. Among other things, that's apparently being done to avoid a recurrance of the Vista-capable debacle that happend last time around, when some systems that were said to be capable of running the OS were, in fact, anything but. According to Microsoft, WARP (or ...
Windows 7 to Introduce WARP
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... Microsoft has just recently announced that Windows 7 will allow DirectX 10 acceleration support on the central processor unit. The new platform, called Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform, or WARP for short, will allow systems to run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU. Microsoft claims that a CPU that has a speed as little as 800MHz can run this new platform, though WARP would obviously work much quicker on a multi-core system with support for SSE 4.1. While the idea may not eliminate discrete graphic cards all together, simple games such as simulations, as well ...
