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To: Waldeen who wrote (10816)	2/23/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Respond to of 16960

Sheesh maybe 3dfx should of bought Metabyte instead of STB. Those guys are geniuses. :) -Tae Kim

To: Waldeen who wrote (10816)	2/23/1999 10:03:00 PM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

If the story about a SLI TnT2 is true and works.. 3dfx better get in gear and accelerate Rampage's timeline. Wow.. it's earth-shattering news. This might even make me buy some Nvidia. -Tae Kim

To: Waldeen who wrote (10816)	2/23/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Respond to of 16960

OT - dual celerons IMO the battle ground in graphics is parallel processing, in the geometry setup too. Perhaps someone can help me out, I was wondering today, why doesn't anyone make a motherboard that supports two celeron processors? Or can I buy a dual processor board for Pentium II's (slot 1) and slip in two Celerons instead? If so, I'd buy one in an instant if someone could point me to it. The reason why you "can't" have dual celeron chip systems is that Intel disabled the feature on the chip itself. Luckily, the disabled feature is relatively easy to hack around if you don't mind a bit of handiwork (a little bit of drilling and soldering... you might need to go to an electronics supply store to get some wire-wrap wire for the jumper wire) goto for the technical details: kikumaru.w-w.ne.jp fastgraphics.com what's even easier to modify are the new socket 370 celerons with "slockets" (boards that allow s370 chips to plug into slot 1 sockets). All you have to do (supposedly) is jumper a single wire. I currently have a single Celeron 333 oc'ed to 412 in a Tyan 1836 dual pentiumII motherboard. I have two socket-370 celeron/slocket combo's on order, so I can soon try out the dual goodness pretty soon. If it works it will only cost me only $150 (including tax and shipping) for a dual 450 (300 oc'ed to 450) system instead of the $1100 for the real thing! on another note, career day at Caltech came and past last week, and guess who had their recruiting posters plastered all over the event? nVidia. and from talking to the recruiter and judging from the huge numbers of positions they were recruiting for, they are looking to expand big time. 3dfx was noticeably absent (Too bad though, most of my my EE peers would KILL to work for them, me included). What was even more ironic, they (nVidia) were giving away an STB velocity 4400 as a recruiting toy =). -ben