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To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (10840)	2/24/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 16960

I still don't see a sea change. And the same software technology can be used to "SLI" two V3 cards or Rampage cards or... Things I don't care about: Nonexistent high tech products and unclear trends. Things I do care about: Revenue growth and operating margins. Everything else is hype IMO. Sun Tzu

To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (10840)	2/24/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Scott Garee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

What is wrong with you people!?! There IS NO SUCH THING AS TNT SLI! I'll be very surprised if there is ever such a thing, but it absolutely can't be purchased now. It has never been demo'ed. It will not stop a single V3 sale. It won't run Glide anyway. You've taken one third hand half-rate web article and turned it into hard fact. Please accept a few points: 1) No on has seen the hardware. 2) Metabyte is known for software. TNT SLI will require HARDWARE. 3) The hardware will require extending the AGP bus via a proprietary cable. This cable will need to sustain 66MHz data rates for all the pins in the AGP bus (or close to it.) You ever price a FW Ultra SCSI cable? There will be substantial cost associated with any proprietary hardware. 4) They will have to manage texture execute requests from 2 separate cards over the same AGP bus. The cards will compete for the AGP bandwidth. They can't transfer anything via the PCI bus, or they end up running at half AGP speed. There is absolutely no way this product (especially TNT2/SLI) will be available in April. I'll pay the first person to send me a retail package (including the card) $20. ;-) I'm dumbfounded by the overreaction to sharky's article. As for the comments about NVDA's stock price: So what, TDFX was once $35. 'Nuff said.