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To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (11116)	3/14/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: Jim Brannon	Respond to of 16960

Here's a link just posted at yahoo with some more benchmarks...interesting! gamespot.com Jim

To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (11116)	3/14/1999 2:00:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

About the TNT2... First, you'll notice that Sharky was restricted from giving memory speeds and clock speeds. NVIDIA and Diamond are smart enough to cherry-pick boards for the reviewers. Remember TNT was reviewed almost everywhere at 125 mhz. The final boards came in at around 95 mhz. I see no reason why this should change. The difference this time around is that nobody will be able to claim a "hyped" review because the clock speeds were jacked up. At Tom's NVIDIA site they gave him a board that could clock up to 175 mhz and he spouts those numbers as if that's truly what Voodoo3 must compete with even though he failed to mention what Diamond intends to ship at. What is laughable is that 3dfx hasn't used this method to their own advantage. But all this BS is merely academic. Banshee outsold TNT at retail even after all the pissing and moaning about its lack of innovation. If the launch is halfway decent, 3dfx should sell a boatload. My main concern is the ability of STB to be able to ship enough boards. The are capped around 1.5 million boards and I'm guessing half a million to be in legacy items alone (Banshee/TNT/Voodoo2). This leaves us with one million V3 boards. Even Banshee sold over one million boards in it's first quarter. My opinion is that Voodoo3 will be even stronger and people that passed on Banshee (Voodoo2 owners) might step up to the plate here. Getting a V3 2000 that is faster than SLI for $100??? Heck, if I wasn't getting a free one on Monday I'd buy one myself. It's got retail hit written all over it. Since we've heard nothing about European deals it looks like 3dfx will be going solo. It's the production stupid! Pat P.S. NECX just updated their site to show expected receipt date of V3 3000 to be 3/18. P.P.S. If first silicon is just being benchmarked today for TNT, there is no way in hell this thing will see the light of day before May. V3 hit the web four months ago. That's about the usual time to market from the first sample run. What a load of crap.