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To: Elmer who wrote (25462)	11/3/1997 12:45:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578590

Elmer - Re: "This is pretty sad news for socket 7. Clearly AGP is still quite a ways off for the K6 " How dare you! You haven't allowed Ali to post his spin on the Uberclockermeister's Socket 7 AGP board/test. I'm sure Ali will be able to convince us that this Via/Socket 7/AGP is far superior to the Intel 440LX implementation. Well - maybe it will be "cheaper", at least. Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (25462)	11/3/1997 3:07:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1578590

Elmer, Hopefully, VIA (or someone else) will get AGP working to satisfy the demand for this gimmick. But when I decide to get into 3D, I will rather spend spend $30 or so for extra 4 MB of memory on the graphics card. Joe

To: Elmer who wrote (25462)	11/13/1997 12:44:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578590

Elmer, re:Clearly AGP is still quite a ways off for the K6 and even farther off for Cyrix, and when it does arrive it looks like it will be slower than Intel's current version. To make things worst, Intel will likely have their 440BX out by the time AGP is workable for socket7, farther widening the gap. Considering that 1x mode is still not completely debugged for socket7 and the 440LX runs clean in 2x mode, I'd say it looks pretty sad. Notice the board crashed with a cyrix. How quickly things change: AGP Socket 7 mainboard (FIC PA2012) is being re-reviewed by Uberclockmeister Tom, and now he recommends it (http://www.tomshardware.com/news.html): "The board has improved a whole lot over the last revision, so that it's now worth being recommended. The performance has increased and it's running fine and stably with the 6x86MX CPU. Have a look at the new review." ONE WEEK. Where's the 440BX? Petz