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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (4264)	6/18/1998 2:44:00 PM
From: larry craye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Ahhhh Chip, I believe you left out something from Tom's comments !!!! ------------------------------ NVIDIA RIVA TNT - E3 Highlight No.2 After the K6-2 I wasn't expecting any other impressive products at E3, but the appointment with NVIDIA should prove me wrong. Instead of letting us sign another annoying NDA, NVIDIA didn't only show TNT, they even let me play a bit Quake2 at 1600x1200 resolution. Wow!! The chip ran only at 70 MHz, hence a lot less than the final 125+ MHz, but Quake2 ran pretty cool at this ultimate screen resolution. It maybe wasn't smooth enough for Thomas Pabst AKA [F3] T-Bone to play a DM, but I would estimate that it ran at about 15-18 fps. This would make a 27 to 32 fps at 125 MHz, maybe even more, so that I look forward to playing Q2 at 1280x1024 as soon as receiving a final TNT board. I'm a big believer into high resolutions in Quake2, since there's nothing nicer than sniping an opponent with the rail gun whilst he can't even see you. Currently I'm playing with two Voodoo2 boards at 1024x768 and the idea of playing Q2 at 1600x1200 simply blows my mind. The quality of Quake2 was outstanding as well. Are there any other games worth talking about? Well, Motorhead ran at 1280x1024 at outstanding quality as well. Why am I not talking of Unreal? NVIDIA didn't show it and the multiplayer abilities of Unreal aren't appealing to me as well, so that I still have to ask if there's anything else than Q2 really. Anyway, TNT rocks and I cannot see any other upcoming 3D graphic chip that would reach the TNT by any means at the current date. (end of Tom's quote) ------------------------------------- So screw TDFX and a Banshee thats not even as fast as a Voodoo 2... It sure looks like the TNT will be THE card to get in the next couple of months. 1) Same price as Voodoo 2 2) Lots faster than Voodoo 2 3) Higher resolutions than Voodoo 2 4) True color rendering 5) Excellent 2D Etc etc...