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To: Petz who wrote (66501)	7/23/1999 3:04:00 AM
From: fyo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587811

John - Re: 1. AGP 4X is only needed for games. PROOF: name an application other than a game that requires AGP 2X for satisfactory performance. Name me one _game_ that requires AGP 2x for satisfactory performance. That said, let me point to a strong argument for AGP: UMA As for your following comment: Main memory bandwidth will not be important until the "multiplier" reaches 7X -- i.e., at 1 GHz for PC133 SDRAM. At that point, it WILL become important, unless the L2 is 512K or greater. That's just baloney. I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true. As always, it depends on the application, but there are quite a few that receive significant performance increases from a greater memory bandwidth (coughSETIcough). --fyodor