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To: Investor A who wrote (21832)	12/6/1997 1:53:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Fuchi, My opinion of AGP is that it is useless. It benefits only computers with little memory on their graphics card running 3D software which uses textures that are too large to fit to the memory on the graphics card. If you are running software that is in category I described and you have a wimpy video card, the cheepest solution is to add some RAM to your video card. You will get some 10% increase in graphics performance compared to buying the same wimpy video card in AGP format and new AGP motherboard - which would give you about 5% increase. It is all hype and no substance. It is yet another way for Intel to trick consumers to pay for some useless transistors and electronics thrown into systems. My interpretation of "AGP" in MXi is that there is really no extra hardware. It is just a software driver. AGPs claim to fame is that it can use some system memory for storage of large textures and transfer them a little faster to video RAM than PCI can. Inside MXi, the whole AGP operation amounts to copying information from one part of RAM to another. Joe

To: Investor A who wrote (21832)	12/6/1997 2:16:00 AM
From: Sleeperz	Respond to of 33344

>>Where could I find the independant benchmarks for ATI 2X AGP card, comparing to 1X AGP and PCI cards?<<< A Benchmark of ATI's Xpert @ Play was a Tom's hardware page sysdoc.pair.com But it doesn't seem to work anymore. As far as 2X AGP vs PCI vs 1X ATI mention 1X AGP is not much better than the current PCI. From a recent ATI PR biz.yahoo.com " The AGP specification, developed by Intel with the continued involvement of ATI, dramatically increases the amount of textures that can be displayed on the screen as it allows for the use of main system memory for texture-laden 3D applications, rather than the limited memory of a graphics controller. While lesser implementations of AGP, such as AGP 1X and AGP Frame provide some improvement in graphics performance, only the AGP 2X mode with SBA produces dramatic enhancements to graphics performance and the full benefits of AGP. " cl