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To: Piranha who wrote (12271)	5/5/1999 8:23:00 AM
From: Michael G. Potter	Respond to of 16960

I really have to laugh now that Alienware has said what videcards they will be using Metabytes PPG technology on (lets you run two cards and split the screen, kinda like SLI but not really). They're using two Voodoo3's! Michael

To: Piranha who wrote (12271)	5/5/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: Piranha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

I hate giving him hits just as much as everyone else, but I had to see if nVidia Tom updated his benchmarks to reflect production versions of cards now that both are available. Nope. Guess he's gonna stand by his pre-production, "over-spec-by-16%-TNT2" benchmarks. Anyway, while I was there, I see that he's found a way to push TNT2 while only mentioning it by once by name. There is an article entitled "3D Chips and Cards - Part I" that was published April 26. In it, he lists "3D Card Requirements for Power Gamers." Here's his list: OpenGl (ICD) and DirectX (6.x) Support Fill Rates in excess of 300 Mpixel/s or Mtexel/s Up to 32 MB of Onboard Memory at Clock Speeds of Way over 100 MHz 32-Bit Rendering Fast RAMDACs with at least 250 MHz or Digital Flat Panel Support State-Of-The-Art AGP-Support Multi-Texturing or Multi-Pixel-Rendering Support of Different Size Textures up to 2048x2048 or more Hardware Bump Mapping Anisotropic Filtering The article is pretty much just a direct attack on Voodoo3 with a couple of other chips mentioned to try and make it look legit. The times V3 is mentioned specifically (and it is mentioned the most) is when is being listed as something to avoid since it doesn't meet one of his precious "requirements". He even found a way to twist the fact that TNT2 is actually scoring lower than V3 into a positive by saying this in his Fill Rate discussion: "A good example for this is TNT2, which has a lower theoretical fill rate than Voodoo3, but it scores higher frame rates in complex 3D scenes." Unbelievable! The fact that it was titled "Part I" suggests there's more of this BS to come. Piranha