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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (2572)	9/22/1998 9:03:00 PM
From: gbh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

That a most perfectly harmonious system in terms of stability, with which to test these rams includes the PCI Millenium II rather than the AGP G200. Is it the consensus here that PCI video lends more stability to the system than AGP? Clarence, in general, a PCI video card shouldn't be any more stable than an AGP version of the same card. However, the G200 chipset (actually just one chip) is brand new, and the current drivers are not yet perfected. I just bought a G200 based board. The Millenium II, in its day (not really very long ago) was known as the fastest 2D board around. Its drivers are very stable after being tuned by Matrox for over a year. Also, Matrox is well known for continuing to tweak drivers for both performance and stability far longer than many other name brand graphics card vendors. This may be why he chose Matrox as the testbed. Gary