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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (12800)	5/20/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (3) of 16960

Re: V3 Feature Set (Pat, I suspect you know the answer to your post and just wanted to start more good conversations. What the heck...) V3 was never meant for the feature-oriented bleeding edge people. It is the ultimate expression of the Voodoo2 architecture and so, feature-wise, is not tops. But, it is the tops in the two features that hard core gamers really want: speed and high-resolution. Again, the question is: Do you want to play the game or look at a spectacularly rendered 32-bit large texture stencil buffered image of your kidneys (that I just handed to you on a 40fps plate ;-)? The more-is-better-at-the-expense-of-framerate crowd is always lying on the ground wondering what hit them. And, they will be FIRST in line to get a "Rampage"-based card when it appears and people see that 3dfx hasn't been sitting on its hands, but has been adding features the right way - without scarificing speed! Final thought: If 3dfx can keep the Voodoo2 architecture viable for this long, how long will the Rampage architecture be king-of-the-hill? BTW: Anyone else see the blurbs from the nVIDIA guy saying that they aren't interested in gaming any more? (Should I post this on the nVIDIA thread? ;-) Nah...) Chip stockchart.com

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