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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (26165)	8/2/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

<Intel killed 4X AGP Pro video card. If 4XAGP Pro was one of compelling reasons for RDRAM, what does that say about RDRAM.> I believe Intel has more compelling AGP-4x products coming out in 2000. The word is that the performance of the i754 graphics chip wasn't compelling enough over the current i752. The only difference between i754 and i752 is that the former is AGP-4x and the latter is AGP-2x; the two share the same graphics core engine. Perhaps this core just wasn't strong enough to take full advantage of AGP-4x. Besides, Intel isn't the only one making graphics controllers. In fact, Intel is far from being the performance leader in 3D graphics. That title is currently being fought over by nVidia, 3dfx, and Matrox. For instance, nVidia's flagship, the Riva TNT2, is already able to support AGP-4x. Whether there will be any performance benefit from AGP-4x is unknown in the case of TNT2, but you can bet that there will be future graphics engines which really do take advantage of it. Tenchusatsu