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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (49913)2/17/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (3) of 1573849
 
Re: "But I guess 14-year-olds like to spend $150 more on a dead-end
PCI solution."

If you want the real peak performance in terms of FPS, you spend the money to go Voodoo 2 SLI.

If you care more about image quality, then you get the TNT.

The fact is that most 14 year olds think in terms of going out, buying a computer from Compaq, HP, etc. (name your OEM) and then plugging in a Voodoo card to improve their games. Most retail boxes don't come equipped with a TNT, and your typical 14 year old (or his parent) doesn't know enough to ask for one. He'll just know he needs to add a Voodoo to play his games.

I'm not one to defend 3Dfx. I think they're behind in technology and they could be a big loser this year unless whatever their next generation product (after Voodoo 3) is early and is very impressive.

As far as Tom's numbers on the K6-2 vs. Celeron with a TNT, it all depends on when NVidia gets around to shipping a decent 3DNow driver. I've heard they're working closely with AMD on exactly that right now, and it doesn't surprise me considering that the TNT drivers were just completely rewritten to change their structure in order to easier implement 3DNow support, SSE support, and other advanced features.

Kevin
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