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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (25995)	4/17/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Running DVD on a system with a 400-MHz Pentium II processor at 100-MHz system-bus speeds consumes about 60 percent of the CPU's processor power, leaving it sufficient headroom to run other applications without dropping frames. Running a 300-MHz Pentium II on the 66-MHz system bus, by contrast, requires all the CPU's processing power to decode the DVD, an Intel spokesman said. techweb.com Pay Intel $800 for PII-400, $200 for BX board and another $300 for PC100 SDRAM to play DVD on Pentium II system? Is that too expensive? A MediaGXm from GCT with hardware MPEG will offer smoother playback with better picture quality at less than 30% cost. The coming MXi will a natural DVD player. There is something serious wrong with Intel technology. gcttech.com Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com