Taipei Taiwan, April 1, 2008 - GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions, today announced the launch of their new graphics accelerator, the GV-NX98X512H-B, equipped with NVIDIA's latest GeForce^® 9800 GTX graphics processor.

Supporting NVIDIA’s HybridPower™ technology, the GIGABYTE GV-NX98X512H-B allows you to switch processing power from the GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card to the motherboard GeForce GPU when running non graphically-intensive applications, for a silent, low power PC experience. The GIGABYTE GV-NX98X512H also offers amazing performance scaling via 3-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering), and delivers rock solid state-of-the-art driver support for the smoothest level of performance under Windows Vista.

The GIGABYTE GV-NX98X512H-B features NVIDIA's latest advanced technologies including GigaThread™ technology, which, through the use of a massively multi-threaded architecture, is able to create thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency for advanced, next generation shader programs. Additionally, the GIGABYTE GV-NX98X512H-B supports NVIDIA's Quantum Effects™ technology, enabling a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU. The GIGABYTE GV-NX98X512H-B also features the Lumenex™ engine, which introduces 16x Anti-aliasing and 128-bit floating point High-Dynamic-Range (HDR), for ultra realistic rendering of lighting effects.

Integrated with NVIDIA Extreme High Definition™ (XHD) for enhanced graphics resolution, the GIGABYTE GV-NX98X512H-B supports the latest video output interfaces, including Dual Dual-Link DVI, for the highest dual 2560X1600 screen resolution. Differing from past GPU generations, the NVIDIA GeForce^® 9800GTX also features a dedicated on-chip video processor for superb picture quality and ultra smooth video playback.

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