AOpen Introduces Advanced New VGA Card Driven by NVIDIA GeForce GPU Technology Taking Gaming Performance

AOpen, an award-winning, global leader in PC component and system design and manufacturing, today launched the industry's most powerful VGA card -- the Aeolus 7800GTX-DVD256. Built with NVIDIA's "Full-Throttle Graphics processor", the new VGA card is driven by NVIDIA's GeForce 7800GTX graphics processing unit (GPU), embedded with next-generation shader architecture and texture unit design streamlines texture processing for faster and smoother game play.

"It's clear that 3-D graphics have become a major concern for PC Enthusiasts when playing hardcore PC games and we've partnered with NVIDIA to meet this growing demand head-on," said Duanni Hurd, Product Manager of AOpen America. "By consistently using outstanding R&D capabilities and our long-held experience, AOpen was able to capitalize on this growing market demand and continue to deliver a product that supports the most advanced graphics industry standard to date."

The advanced visual effects engines of the Aeolus card offer the most realistic gaming experience by incorporating NVIDIA's Intellisample 4.0 technology to provide outstanding visual quality through gamma correct rotated grid antialiasing and advanced anisotropic filtering. The improved sample coverage (up to 128 Taps) improves quality of anisotropic filtering. Its support for normal map compression enables more lifelike characters and thrilling environments.

Additionally, the Aeolus card supports SLI technology and delivers almost two-times the performance of a single CPU for unparallel gaming experiences by allowing two graphics display cards to run in parallel. The SLI technology, which is the must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games. The new texture core accelerates 64-bit floating point texture filtering, shading, blending for state-of-the-art high dynamic range visual effects. According to AOpen's rigorous benchmarking, when two graphics cards with both supporting SLI technology run in parallel for 3Dmark2003/2005 benchmark test, they consistently outperform a PC installed with only one graphics card. Furthermore, the architecture of the display card is designed for the next-generation Microsoft "Longhorn" operating system.

AOpen bundles the new Aeolus VGA card with two gaming applications -- Pitfall and Second Sight. The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of the new card starts at $599.00. For more information on the Aeolus, or AOpen's full line of graphic card solutions, please visit www.aopen.com.

About AOpen

Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with AOpen America's headquarters in San Jose, California, AOpen Inc. is the world's largest total PC component solutions manufacturer and a member of an $18-billion technology group. Leveraging more than 28 years of technology manufacturing experience and more than 1,000 Group patents, AOpen designs, manufactures and markets high-quality, state-of-the-art motherboards; housings; small-form-factor bare systems; VGA cards; white-box notebooks; optical drives; multimedia headsets and headphones; multimedia and network solutions; as well as numerous other PC component products sold through VARs to institutional, corporate, education and government customers, and via retailers to small business and end-user customers.

CONTACT: Marti Miernik of Neale-May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555, or Miernik@nealemay.com.




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