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To: Peter S. who wrote (10835)	2/24/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Respond to of 16960

No big deal huh. Metabyte pushes Nvidia (TnT/TnT2 SLI) on top of the performance curve till this fall. Investors know the impact. Nvidia spiked from a close of 22 yesterday to 26 at the open. It's down a bit from then. -Tae Kim

To: Peter S. who wrote (10835)	2/24/1999 10:04:00 AM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

February 24th, 1999 - (6:00am MST) I just noticed on SE the pre-release info about Metabyte releasing a TNT SLI rig in the two forms of AGP+PCI or PCI+PCI. Furthermore, Metabyte claims this technology can be easily used on other chipsets, including the upcoming TNT2. So, I am wondering what you think of the whole thing and where does that leave 3Dfx (out in the cold)? This technology was not developed by nVida, but Metabyte. Thus, this clearly illustrates what an OEM and offer to a manufacturer. Something that 3Dfx never counted on, hehe. Stephen B Looney Honestly, I think there is either some serious misinformation or wishful thinking going on. If an actual press release materializes, I'll take it more seriously. The article itself had some questionable comments (I don't recall Carmack making claims of 25% speed improvements for SSE) and flat out inaccuracies ("256K x 256K" and "2000K x 2000K" texture size limitations...you mean "256x256" and "2048x2048"? And SLI configurations should not have any bearing on CPU performance since the work is done at scan out time, i.e. by the hardware). And the conjecture about Q3A frame rates was WAY out there -- guessing framerates for an unreleased game on unannounced hardware is, well, stupid. More info from Voodooextreme.com