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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (10805)	2/23/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: timbur	Respond to of 16960

Re: Banshee price erosion About Sharky's review, I agree with Chip. I know I usually rag on a product more than is warranted when this happens to me too. The Banshee pricing debacle won't be repeated. Was this really that bad? AFAIK, the pricing pressures effected the retail price, not the chipset price, right? If the Banshee were priced much higher retail, wouldn't TNT sell more chips? Locally (Austin), I still find the Creative TNT cheaper ($129) than I find the name-brand Banshees. (IOMagic's is cheaper at EB.) Frankly, I've had a hard time recommended against the TNT lately to my friends. Of course, I did run across someone at CompUSA last week who was disappointed that his older GLIDE-only games would not run on his TNT. I can't wait for the V3, so I can continue pimping 3Dfx! It seems to me the only way the Banshee price erosion hurt 3Dfx was a loss of Voodoo2 sales, which probably would have happened anyway. Tim

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (10805)	2/23/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: timbur	Respond to of 16960

V2 SLI --> V3 3500 If I can afford it, I will be upgrading to the V3 3500, provided it has good OpenGL support. My main issue will be freeing up 2 PCI slots. It will also free up the V2's to use in another computer. Tim