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To: Pierre-X who wrote (7058)9/10/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Simon Cardinale  Read Replies (1) of 16960
 
Hey Pierre, welcome back.

<<While 3dfx's reputation in the 3D world is second to none, the banshee is their first real attempt at a 2D-3D card.>>

No. Was the Rush was a "fake" attempt?

Rush wasn't all 3Dfx. They didn't do the 2D. The 3D part of rush worked okay, though driver issues gave many people headaches. (Purchase a Riva 128 and you'll get even more headaches, of course._

<<Without a track record in the area, OEM's would be foolish to give a contract to an unproven design, by a company new to the field.>>

No. RIVA 128.

<<Once the design is proven, 3dfx will have no trouble selling Banshee>>

Can you define the criteria to met for a design to be "proven"?

He was referring (I think) to a statement by Sun Tzu that OEMs should have announced support for Banshee *before* it was shown to them. I (and others) said that they'd have no reason to do this, and much to lose if 3Dfx handed them a dud after they'd announced it was going into their next line.

I don't think that OEMs announced they were going to use the Riva 128 before the chipset existed. However they may have preannounced support for the Riva 128ZX (a minor improvement on a proven design). Likewise 3Dfx should have an easy time selling the .25um version of the Banshee to OEMs happy with the .35um design.

Simon
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