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To: Obewon who wrote (12732)	5/19/1999 1:09:00 AM
From: Jeffrey P	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

ROFLMAO!!! OH GEEZ!!! LOL!!!! TOM GOT PUBLISHED! LOL! Says a lot for Hercules using Tom as a reference... LOL!!! Now i've seen it all.... agn3d.com Jeff P.

To: Obewon who wrote (12732)	5/19/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: joel3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Obewon, Excellent points. Your argument here is backwards. Intel is concerned with the low margin Celerons competing against the high margin PIIIs. 3dfx has not even released its high margin Voodoo3 3500 to compete against the low/med margin Voodoo3 3000. (The Voodoo3 2000 is the real low margin product.) Therefore, the release of the Voodoo3 3500 should improve margins immediately. 2) The Voodoo3 3500 has only two competitors (V3 3K and a TNT2U), one of which is already a 3dfx board. Why immediately launch another board which will just compete against your own existing product. Intel proved that if Celerons became too good, too fast, it cut into sales of the higher margined Pentium 2. There has to be another reason for the delay. I agree that it has nothing to do with chip yields, especially considering the widespread success of overclocking the Voodoo3 3000 to 183MHz. It may be due to the incorporation of AGP 4x into the Voodoo3 3500. Joel