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To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (10820)	2/23/1999 10:55:00 PM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

TnT SLI does worry me because it puts Nvidia indisputedly on TOP of the speed performance curve for power hungry gamers for the next few months (until Rampage). Let's be honest, 3dfx was MADE by Quake players who wanted the fastest greatest hardware money can buy (voodoo1, voodoo2 SLI, etc.). Voodoo3 was a mediocre stop-gap measure to regain the performance lead, but now with SLI TnT/TnT2, the hard-core gamer who is willing to shell out whatever it takes to get the fastest machine, will buy Nvidia instead of Voodoo3. This is a sad news for 3dfx. The sad thing was Metabyte (makers of Wicked 3d) engineers were big-time Pro-3dfx before they were forced to turn to Nvidia because of the STB merger. -Tae Kim tigerinvestor.com

To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (10820)	2/23/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Obewon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

I think that everyone is currently overreacting to Metabyte's announcement. While I applaud their use of SLI (if this turns out to be the case), noone but company insiders have seen it. Sharkey's site admits they haven't seen it either though they mention something about verification. Please lets make a distinction here. Metabyte is the innovator, not Nvidia. Long time 3Dfx fans know that Metabyte is an innovative company and develops great drivers and boards that give better performance than 3Dfx's old reference designs. Second is that any 3D accelerator chip CAN be used to do an SLI-like parallel scanning of an image. 3Dfx was just the first mainstream chip maker to easily incorporate it leaving all others in the dust with Voodoo II. Why they didn't include an easy way to implement it into the Voodoo3 desgn I don't know but I suspect that it was the cost. Metabyte's suggested ASP for a TNT SLI rig is around $300 ($150/board), which is at the high end of today's current prices. The highest end Voodoo3 will be at $250 and that includes a $50-$75 digital LCD adapter which will have to be purchased separately on any other system. Obewon