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To: JR who wrote (4519)	6/21/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (2) of 16960

Re: Banshee on the motherboard. I'm not sure I understand your question but technically, as I understand it, Banshee is a single chip that can theorheticly be installed directly on a motherboard. However, the most likely OEM scenario is that boxmakers will offer customers a variety of AGP-based video card choices including Banshee-based cards. So there are actually several levels of OEM "wins" (in order of increasing goodness): 1.) Banshee-based card offered as a totally separate addon that's not part of the normal order process. (This is where Voodoo2 is today with Dell.) 2.) Banshee-based card offered as one of several AGP card choices as part of the normal order process. 3.) Banshee-based card offered as the default choice for the normal order process. 4.) Banshee-based card offered as the ONLY video card choice for a particular model. 5.) Banshee chip built into the motherboards of an entire line of computers. If/when we see some OEM announcements for Banshee, read them closely to see which of the above options they are referring to. Re: S3 info - I missed it. Please repost. Thx. Chip

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