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To: Joe NYC who wrote (80109)	5/15/2002 1:34:09 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: "the fastest Duron is $62 on PriceWatch, and $79, you can get AXP 1700+." True enough. AMD usually does give large discounts from their advertised prices. wbmw

To: Joe NYC who wrote (80109)	5/15/2002 8:26:27 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

Matrox Parhelia 512 preview at Anandtech Here's the summary page: anandtech.com Some incredible new technology in it: * Hardware Displacement Mapping - similar to texture mapping which maps each pixel's color to a new color based on a texture map, but it moves a mesh or set of triangles by varying amounts based on the contents of the displacement map. * more intelligent anti-aliasing * 5th order analog filtering improves output quality * four vertex shaders, four rendering pipelines, 5-stage pixel shaders in each pipeline and 256-bit wide DDR memory interface (all these numbers are about double the best GeForce 4), but Anand says better NVidia drivers will eat up the difference except on newer games.) * will have 80M transistors on UMC's 0.15µ process. That's twice as many as an Athlon XP! Available June. Some features already licensed to Microsoft for use in Direct X 9, but it will NOT be DX9-compliant because that will require (apparently) 16-bit floating point (?!) for each color. The big question is: Will yields be too low to make the cards affordable? I hope Matrox is also making a 2-pipeline version for not-quite-hardcore gamers. Petz