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To: Ali Chen who wrote (25465)	11/3/1997 5:48:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578717

Ali and AMDer's: Check out the new AMD Professional Gaming League site pgl.net Basically its an online gamers league which has a low $10 per quarter fee, sponsered by AMD. "Sponsored" doesn't seem to be the right word, they've already taken in $2,000,000 in advertising revenue. Seems like great free advertising for AMD to me. I predict that within 6 months, the fastest machine for running QUAKE will have an AMD processor. (QUAKE is one of the games that can be played online.) Petz

To: Ali Chen who wrote (25465)	11/3/1997 9:30:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578717

AYMTPA (Ali You Missed The Point Again) This isn't an arguement about benchmarks and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with business apps. It's about the chipset being late and still full of bugs. AGP won't do much for business apps, you're right there, thats not what it is intended for. The whole point is that the chipset is too full of bugs to ship, even in 1x mode and 2x doesn't work at all! Add to that it won't work at all with cyrix processors. Bottom line is AGP is still a ways off for socket7. Your point about business apps is correct, I won't argue with you on that point. There are lots of other applications where is does offer a major inprovement over PCI, at high resolutions in perticular. Slot1 offers AGP now. Socket7 doesn't and won't for some time. EP