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To: Plaz who wrote (13575)	6/30/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Marc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

<<Could you please explain this again? It makes no sense as written...>> You're right, the point i wanted to make was that because you absolutly need a BIG fan, because the heat is huge, which takes a lot of space, i don't think the design is very efficient for an OEM to pick up. Yes i know when Tom's review the fury, HEAT was the big thing, but i wonder why no one is talking of TNT and V3 heat. FROM PEAK: "Yessssrrr!!!....just put your finger in this empty lightbulb socket and you, too, can feeeeel the power of the lord surging through your body" . When products are announced using yet unannounced non standard speed memories to gain an overall speed advantage....you can almost gurantee that quality margins have been shaved significantly. Both the memory and video chip need to have been manufactured on a very good day. The Rage 128's archtitecture and balance functionality have it the pick of OEMs in spite of the rash of video chips released by 3Dfx (2000, 3000,2500), Nvidia(Vanta, TNT2) and Matrox (G400). To get an idea of level of problems with the Rage Fury card relative to the VooDoo and TNT2, here is listing of problems surfacing on motherboards built with either ALI or VIA chipsets that power all Super7 and Socket7 motherboards: "VooDoo problems: count=71,000 TNT or TNT2 problems: count=11,000 Fury problems: count=1,600 The most amazing thing is that the 3Dfx chipset does not even support AGP cycles and yet the pseudo AGP card has the most problems with Super7 boards. Go figure. === Also, the 740 was supposed to put ATI to death 16 months ago, well this year as been the biggest with 1.2 Billion in sales. And ATI is also working on an integrated solution, do some dd. Marc Exception is Solano chipset, part of co.'s plan to revive its graphics biz techweb.com "Intel also seems prepared to capture the stand-alone professional graphics-chip market, a segment Intel has never come close to broaching. For example, the company's current Intel 752 graphics chip doesn't support 32-bit rendering, an oversight tolerated only in" high-performance competitors from 3Dfx Interactive Inc., analysts said.