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To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (10820)	2/23/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Obewon	Read Replies (1) of 16960

I think that everyone is currently overreacting to Metabyte's announcement. While I applaud their use of SLI (if this turns out to be the case), noone but company insiders have seen it. Sharkey's site admits they haven't seen it either though they mention something about verification. Please lets make a distinction here. Metabyte is the innovator, not Nvidia. Long time 3Dfx fans know that Metabyte is an innovative company and develops great drivers and boards that give better performance than 3Dfx's old reference designs. Second is that any 3D accelerator chip CAN be used to do an SLI-like parallel scanning of an image. 3Dfx was just the first mainstream chip maker to easily incorporate it leaving all others in the dust with Voodoo II. Why they didn't include an easy way to implement it into the Voodoo3 desgn I don't know but I suspect that it was the cost. Metabyte's suggested ASP for a TNT SLI rig is around $300 ($150/board), which is at the high end of today's current prices. The highest end Voodoo3 will be at $250 and that includes a $50-$75 digital LCD adapter which will have to be purchased separately on any other system. Obewon

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