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To: Steve Porter who wrote (58752)	6/25/1998 1:54:00 AM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve, Yes.. (I don't really need to elaborate on that do I ;-) ) No. You have been quite clear on that, but I keep trying to get a different answer. A more favorable answer ;-) Well you raised some interesting points. I think I am going to have to sleep on it. Maybe it will all go away tomorrow. ;-) Dale

To: Steve Porter who wrote (58752)	6/25/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel has an advantage in capacity and to some extent speed. However speed is becoming a moote issue. Does the average Internet surfer or secretary need a PII-400.. NO.. Do I for simulation YES. But I make up at most 15% of the market (very generous % there). The average gamer needs the fastest machine he can buy. Usually the video is the bottleneck but, from what I understand, with the Voodoo2-based 3D accelerators this has changed. Only the PII-400 can feed it at capacity. www2.tomshardware.com "The Voodoo2 is pretty much the first ever 3D chip which shows you the limitations of your CPU in a severe fashion. Whilst in the past the 3D accelerator used to be the bottleneck in 3D gaming performance, now with the Voodoo2 the bottleneck is the CPU in most of the cases. Testing shows that it takes at least a Pentium II 266 to see a significant impact of the Voodoo2 performance in game benchmarks and this only in case of high resolutions. At 640x480 most games won't let the Voodoo2 show it's full performance even in a Pentium II 300 system, which means that most likely even the upcoming Pentium II 400 will maybe only just deliver enough CPU power to max out the Voodoo2. The K6 3D is the only Socket 7 candidate that could take the Voodoo2 closer to its limits, no currently available Socket 7 CPU is able to supply enough CPU power to really use the vast 3D force of the Voodoo2."