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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (12547)	5/13/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 16960

>> Can't believe you guys fell for that "best game" question. Ya, but I am now going to buy both Baldur and Everquest <g> Sun "Always preferred RPG to FPS" Tzu

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (12547)	5/14/1999 8:24:00 AM
From: Plaz	Respond to of 16960

Anyone wanna bet this doesn't hit store shelves for at least another two months? I'll take you up on that. What the winner gets, I have no idea, but I bet they do it in under 2 months. They say late may, but I'm thinking late June. There are several interesting things that we can speculate on by the Hercules announcement: 1. nvidia is shipping the TNT2 with less "headroom" than 3dfx. The 175 T2U overclocked to 195, or an 11% increase. There are multiple reports of the 183 V3 samples that made it to 220MHz, or a 20% margin. Not being a semiconductor geek, I have no idea what the "industry standard" is. Anyone know? 2. Yield on the 175 T2U must be quite limited. Otherwise, Creative and Diamond would have been all over it. But a smaller vendor like Hercules, who will likely move less units, picks up the 175. It will be interesting to see how easily available these things are once they ship. I'm sure demand will be high, but can they meet it? Time will tell... Plaz