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To: Burt Masnick who wrote (72157)	1/26/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Intel investors, from the rumormill, Sharky Extreme said that 3Dfx will release a version of their upcoming Voodoo3 3D accelerator which will take full advantage of Intel's Camino chipset and the new AGP 4x mode. This was called the Voodoo3 4000, and it differs from previous Voodoo AGP cards in that the older cards don't take advantage of even AGP 2x mode. sharkyextreme.com =================================== Voodoo3 -4000 AGP 4X Coming This Summer But wait, there is another hope (in Yoda's voice). Whilst we were poised to lament the non-arrival of a 'real' gamer's card, 3Dfx revealed to us a bit of early info on the Voodoo3 -4000. Could this be it? Well, what little we do know about the board is that it will require the use of an (as yet unreleased) Intel Camino chipset. It will also be specifically designed and optimized for Camino in order to take advantage of AGP 4X just in time to compete head to head with nVidia's .25micron TNT2. This is indeed a first for 3Dfx and it seems as though (with 4X), AGP is finally worth more than it's initials and is thus getting full implementation. Remember for both the Voodoo Banshee and the Voodoo3 -2000 and -3000 the board will be compatible with AGP slots but won't support full AGP 2X texturing as 3Dfx will stick with their own memory transfer routine. 3Dfx will time the release of the Voodoo3 -4000 to coincide with Intel's launch of Camino in summer 1999.