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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (43934)	12/23/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572919

Ten, The introduction of hardware geometry engines next year in most leading edge graphics boards, will make the whole KNI vs. 3D Now argument mostly irrelevant for games. Software implementations will not be very competitive regardless of which CPU is being used. Scumbria

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (43934)	12/23/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1572919

Re: "Seems like the K6-3's advantage over the Pentium II in games is still razor-thin, even with 3D-Now and that monstrous Voodoo2 SLI card." Looking at how close those numbers are between the PII and K6-3 w/3dnow enabled, it wouldn't really surprise me if the Voodoo 2 SLI card is fill rate limited! I really think the numbers are too close to make any other kind of determination. If the Voodoo 2 SLI still doesn't make for a good test, I can't imagine what would--maybe you'd need to unplug all your SDRAM and test it that way? Kevin