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To: Elmer who wrote (32269)	4/30/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572348

Elmer: << That's why you should use a s system with an AGP port.>> AGP is nothing more than a specialized PCI bus running at 66MHz instead of 33MHz. The pipeline is bigger. You still need to do the 3D calculation before you can pump the data through the AGP pipe. This is where the K6-3D auxillary engine comes in. It acts like an extra pump pumping more water through the AGP pipe. Maxwell

To: Elmer who wrote (32269)	4/30/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572348

AGP isn't going to help you with Quake or (nowadays) Quake 2. The fastest frame rates are achievable with a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 3D card--and, oh yeah, it uses the PCI bus only. The bus itself is no barrier to high FPS (Voodoo2 with a Pentium II 400 Mhz gets you almost 90 FPS, and the bottleneck is the CPU, not the graphics card). Gamers are looking at the K6-3D as a much cheaper alternative to high end Pentium II's that will actually unplug the bottleneck and get them the high FPS they are demanding. Not only that, but, depending on exactly how the K6-3D works, users with older first generation Voodoo accelerators or other 3D or 2D/3D cards that are bottlenecks should be able to get a performance increase as the K6-3D will move part of the processing burden off the graphics card itself. That saves these users the need to replace both 3D accelerator and CPU at the same time (a costly proposition for lots of people). Kevin