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To: Scott Garee who wrote (13526)	6/28/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Certainly every V2 1000 had to be either a newly minted chip or a "backroom stock" unit. Scott, 3dfx hasn't manufactured a Voodoo2 chip in over six months. Why would anyone buy a V2 over a Banshee? Are all these cards being used for SLI? Considering that most Banshee are just as much as Voodoo3 at retail, why would anyone buy a Banshee? Creative now has V2 for $49. I think we frequently make the mistake that the majority of consumers know what the hell they are buying. They, in fact, do not. The numbers only prove the case. Heck, even people that know what they are doing can get duped. I just bought a memorex 48x multi-read CD-ROM. What a really wanted was "multi-beam" not "multi-read". The difference is huge, but I assumed that multi-read was multi-beam. Multi-beam is mulitiple lasers used in a constant velocity drive. This is new technology. Multi-read means that the CD can read different kinds of media. Almost every CD on the market is multi-read. The funny thing is that almost every CD vendor is now putting huge multi-read stickers on their boxes to dupe people into buying. I didn't know I got screwed until I actually ran a few benchmarks. The moral of the story: 3dfx was right and I was wrong. If they feel it takes 20 million to "buy" new customers with a huge advertising campaign, they are probably right. Mea Culpa. Pat