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To: Investor A who wrote (21832)	12/6/1997 1:53:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 33344

Fuchi, My opinion of AGP is that it is useless. It benefits only computers with little memory on their graphics card running 3D software which uses textures that are too large to fit to the memory on the graphics card. If you are running software that is in category I described and you have a wimpy video card, the cheepest solution is to add some RAM to your video card. You will get some 10% increase in graphics performance compared to buying the same wimpy video card in AGP format and new AGP motherboard - which would give you about 5% increase. It is all hype and no substance. It is yet another way for Intel to trick consumers to pay for some useless transistors and electronics thrown into systems. My interpretation of "AGP" in MXi is that there is really no extra hardware. It is just a software driver. AGPs claim to fame is that it can use some system memory for storage of large textures and transfer them a little faster to video RAM than PCI can. Inside MXi, the whole AGP operation amounts to copying information from one part of RAM to another. Joe

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