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To: Michael Linov who wrote (6974)	9/8/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

You're correct. My brokerage software uses the bid price (11 3/8) rather than the last sale price (11 9/16) when computing percentages from real-time quotes. Thus the difference. Chip

To: Michael Linov who wrote (6974)	9/8/1998 9:05:00 PM
From: Michael Linov	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

T N T o n L o w e r S p e c P C s sharkyextreme.com here's a bit of it: Reviewed by Alex "Sharky" Ross : September 9th 1998 Last week I gave the nVidia TNT based Spectra 2500 a going over on a fully charged Pentium II 400Mhz machine. Once again- the TNT is no Voodoo2 killer that nVidia had cranked it up to be but I noticed something else that bothered me- its performance on a lower spec machine. So I decided to test out the Spectra 2500 on a Pentium II 300MHz and on a socket 7 based AMD K6-2 300Mhz PC. Just as with the Pentium II 400Mhz, the results from the benchmarks didn't exactly instill me with any near enough confidence for me to recommend this card to you. I mean if you own a high-end PC (Pentium II 400MHz or above) then by all means go for a TNT if you already have a couple of Voodoo2s. But if you've got a slightly lower spec machine such as the Pentium II 3090Mhz or the AMD K6-2 300Mhz, then you'll see that the TNT makes no sense at all. The TNT is just far too CPU dependant and even a Pentium II 300Mhz, just doesn't quite give it enough horsepower. And because of this lack of horsepower, the TNT is not only overtaken by a Voodoo2 in most cases but by a Voodoo Banshee as well, which is some $50 cheaper and gives you accessibility to Glide based games. Sin became verge on being unplayable on a TNT with a K6-2 300Mhz- and that was only in single player mode.