Taipei, Taiwan, Feb. 21, 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-NX96T512H-B, equipped with NVIDIA's latest GeForce^® 9600 GT graphics processor.

The GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512H-B features the GeForce^® 9600 GT with 512 MB GDDR3 memory, delivering the highest levels of sophisticated game rendering for a greatly enhanced gaming experience. Transporting users into a new realm of gaming excitement, the GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512H-B features 64 processors as well as support for HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), providing the highest quality High-Definition video for the ultimate home theater experience.

The GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512H-B is compatible with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proof bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5 Gb/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCIe). Equipped with DirectX^® 10 support and adopting the latest Unified Shader architecture with full support for Shader Model 4.0, the GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512H-B is able to deliver the most realistic gaming effects and lets users take full advantage of all the advanced features Microsoft^® Windows Vista Premium has to offer, including the full Aero Interface.

The GIGABYTE GV-NX96T512H-B also 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-NX96T512H-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-NX96T512H-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-NX96T512H-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^® 9600GT also features a dedicated on-chip video processor for superb picture quality and ultra smooth video playback.

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