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To: Simon Cardinale who wrote (9658)	12/15/1998 1:57:00 AM
From: Eric Howard	Respond to of 16960

On MaximumPC, maximumpcmag.com there are two good blurbs, one about 3DFX buying STB and the other about the ATI card still being in early Beta stages. "An ATI Rage 128 tested at Maximum PC found several driver problems including an inability to break the 75MHz refresh rate, failure to use 24-bit Z-buffering at 32-bit OpenGL gaming, and visible dithering in D3D and OpenGL games." More reasons why there was not a performace hit with 32bit color?? Since the ATI chip is already .25, if it has issues then the only serious threat to Voodoo3 in the gaming space will be a .25 TnT. It will be real interesting to see when that part will show up. Eric

To: Simon Cardinale who wrote (9658)	12/15/1998 2:10:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Respond to of 16960

<<They don't have the resources to buy either of the remaining credible TNT board makers>> Hercules is back on the market... Pat

To: Simon Cardinale who wrote (9658)	12/15/1998 2:12:00 AM
From: micren@aol.com	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

TDFX's announcement has upset the status quo. Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall right now in Creative's and Diamond's boardrooms? Who do you think will buy N-Vidia out? Whoever does will certainly leave the other board makers in the dust. If N-Vidia is cash poor than that means less money for R&D and well you get the picture. I'm sure a buyout wouldn't be that repugnant to them. Now what I'm interested in knowing is if TDFX wanted to align itself with a board maker why not just let Creative buy them out? Was this an issue of who internal politics and control? And what will Creative do now with all it's TDFX shares? Did they sanction this merger? Strange, since it seemed they wanted to buy out TDFX themselves, enough for TDFX to take them seriously and issue a poison pill. So now what, Creative dumps all its shares (wonder what will happen to TDFX's price then), or a possible future Creative-TDFX-STB alliance?