Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : 3DFX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marc who wrote (11403)	3/29/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Jeff Lins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Ding From VoodooExtreme: "It looks like NVIDIA is going to have problems delivering faster speed TNT2 chips, because of the amount of cards that have been announced as 125MHz models. The newest example is Guillemot's TNT2 card, a $229.99 card with only 125MHz chip speed. (Ouch) Here is a post that Jason Coon made to the Voodoo3 newsgroups regarding the matter. GUILLEMOT INTERNATIONAL Xentor RIVA TNT2 32MB AGP Availability: Pre-Order Release Date: 04/25/1999 $229.99 + S&H The Xentor is the next generation of 2D/3D Graphics Acceleration. Using nVIDIA's new TNT2 chipset, the Xentor pumps the graphics through it's 128-bit processor. Xentor's beefed with a 183Mhz memory clock speed, and 125Mhz chipset clock speed Notice how it has 183MHz memory speed, but only 125MHz chipset speed. When Tom previewed it, the 183MHz memory model had a 150MHz chip speed. Looks like nVidia is truely remaining true to form, hyping overclocked pre-release silicon, then shipping an over priced, clocked down model. I'd like to see Tom redo his preview into a review with real shipping silicon and see how it compares to the V3. In an update, here's what CGW's Loyd Case had to say about this: I'm guessing the information on the Xentor 32 was taken off the EB World web site. I spoke with Guillemot a couple of days ago. That information was supplied to EB some time ago, prior to Nvidia's announcement of the TNT2. According to Guillemot, the core clock of the Xentor 32 will be higher than 125MHz, but the final clock hasn't been determined yet." http://voodooextreme/