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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (49917)	2/17/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573851

> The fact is that most 14 year olds think in terms of going out, buying a computer from Compaq, HP, etc. (name your OEM) and then plugging in a Voodoo card to improve their games. Most retail boxes don't come equipped with a TNT, and your typical 14 year old (or his parent) doesn't know enough to ask for one. He'll just know he needs to add a Voodoo to play his games. Give me a break. So the typical 14-year-old knows about Voodoo and not TNT? You can't look at a website, gaming rag, or video card review without reading about both. - Eric

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (49917)	2/17/1999 4:21:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573851

Kevin, first of all there was a reason why I called the dual PCI solution dead-end. No one is making 3D cards for PCI anymore. Everyone is going AGP, even 3Dfx with their Voodoo3. Second, we all know how AGP support on Super 7 platforms has been less than stellar. We also know that the Riva TNT, currently the best AGP solution out there, could probably do a better job with 3DNow-optimization. But who's fault is this? That's right, AMD's. A nine-month lead on 3DNow vs. the Pentium III enhancements, and what does AMD have to show for it? 3DNow looked elegant and powerful on paper, as well as on Quake 2 which AMD really concentrated on. But when it comes to driver support, AGP support, game support, etc., AMD has failed to get the industry going on full throttle. NVidia had little to lose by doing a half-assed job on 3DNow support. Same thing with other graphics chip makers out there, as well as the game developers and even the OS guys like Microsoft. Same thing with the Super 7 chipset developers out there who aren't doing that well on AGP. It's AMD's game to lose. So my dead-end argument stands. If all you care about is Quake 2 on a dual Voodoo2 setup, by all means go for the K6-2. Tenchusatsu