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To: Joe C. who wrote (5873)	7/29/1998 10:15:00 AM
From: timbur	Respond to of 16960

If I were going to wear a bullet-proof vest, I would also wear some headgear and some kevlar panels over my thighs and shins. Of course, any perp worth his salt would be using armor-piercing bullets. Cheers, Tim

To: Joe C. who wrote (5873)	7/29/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: Jeff Lins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Ok, here is the link to the Banshee review at AGN agn3d.com Go to Hardware (left frame), then look for the Banshee article; I think it is at the top. They have a nice interview along with the review. The only thing that confuses me is that the numbers look great, but the reviewer says that he thinks TNT and Savage may do a little better. Savage? When DIMD said that Savage would be low end, that made me feel that Banshee was clearly superior; I figure DIMD has had their hands on both pieces of silicon for a while... In the interview the TDFX guy says that TNT will do 2 pixels per pass but, not in multitexturing games, and so that that will slow it down. Is he trying to confuse us? I thought that it was clear that the dual pipeline architecture ran 2 pixels per cycle for apps that do not support SPM, and will do 2 texels per on games that do. IF they get this to work, this is clearly superior to the V2 design. So why is he knocking it? Is there something I missed or is he trying to belittle the competition? (no, I am not big on TNT as I have SERIOUS doubts that they will get much over 100mHz without spontaneously combusting...)