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To: Gary Ng who wrote (64887)	9/16/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary - Re: " So an equivalent K6 system needs to add a Millenium II + Voodoo2 to compare in price ?" I think the larger issue is performance. If Intel can make and sell the "revised Whitney" chip set at reasonable prices - let's say $90 to $100 (440BX + Whitney), the system costs for an Intel solution are going to drop considerably. A Celeron/Whitney based system (with 370 pin PPGA socket) will put incredible graphics and computational power in sub $1000 PCs, a price point where "bare bones" K6-2 systems ARE NOT COMPETITIVE. As you note, the higher cost of graphics accelerators will put socket 7 based systems at a distinct disadvantage. Paul