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To: Paul A who wrote (4898)	6/30/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: Bob Howarth	Respond to of 16960

Consider. If I already have a PC, I must either use my current graphics card and add a V2 or throw away the card and buy TNT. A new PC I must order with the TNT or else same comparison. If I bought new PC and wanted V2 but not SLI speed of two V2 my best choice is to get the PC with a TNT card from the outset. But if I want a cheaper system, it is clear that I buy the PC with a Banshee card. Or I can take my current PC (PCI probably) and give it a facelift by throwing away current grahics card and replacing with Banshee based card. So TDFX gets low end, and TNT for now gets V2 on new PCs if can get OEM to ship PC with TNT. Next Banshee card will probably try to challenge TNT for high end. But I suspect that V2 has already got most of the market and TNT faces a glut at its introduction. Next Banshee must be substantially faster to capture market from TNT.