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Asus V8200
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Product Name: Asus V8200
Availability: Beginning Of April
Price: $549 & $598 for deluxe version
Press Release:
ASUS ANNOUNCES V8200 SERIES NVIDIA GeForce3TM Graphics Card
Taipei, Taiwan, March 5, 2001 - ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (TSE:2357) today announced its next generation graphics card - ASUS V8200 series. The new graphics card is powered with the world's first programmable nFiniteFXTM graphics processor unit (GPU) - NVIDIA® GeForce3. Based on the successful experience of ASUS's award-winning V6600/6800, V7100 and V7700, ASUS's new V8200 series completely exhibits the power of NVIDIA's GeForce3 GPU and superior 460MHz Double Data Rate frame buffer. This card undisputedly stands at the forefront of graphics technologies and brings users unbelievable 3D visual experiences like never before!
Most Sophisticated Visual Realism
ASUS V8200 series is powered by the most advanced graphics processing unit on earth - the fully programmable nFiniteFXTM engine, which integrates a complete instruction set enabling dynamic reconfiguration, fully exposed registers for vertex and pixel shading, as well as custom lighting, transform and effects programs. With this breakthrough architecture, ASUS V8200 series easily surpasses all previous graphics cards by creating an infinite number of pixel-level special effects that bring jaw-dropping realism.
Breakthrough High-Speed Excitement
Featuring earth-shattering performance of 3.2 billion samples per second FSAA fill rate, 76 GigaFLOPS, 800 billion operations per second, and 7.4GB/sec effective memory bandwidth. The ASUS V8200 series leverages new powerful designs such as Lightspeed Memory ArchitectureTM and RenderScale Technology, and brings users supreme speed transitions and high refresh rates.
The Best 3D Performance and Safety
In order to guarantee the most protection and stability for your valuable system while enjoying this powerful graphics card, the ASUS V8200 series also features ASUS's innovative SmartDoctorTM technologies including Fan RPM Monitoring, AGP Power Level Monitoring, SmartCooling technology, OverHeat Protection, and Dynamic OverClocking.
Availability and Pricing
The ASUS V8200 Pure and V8200 Deluxe (with TV-out, video-input, video editing, and 3D VR glasses) will be shipping in the beginning of April, retailing for USD549 and USD598 respectively. Price and release date are subject to change.
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Boxshot of Asus V2800 Deluxe version.
Shot of memory from Asus V2800 Deluxe version.
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Thanks to Digit-Life, we picked up quite a few pictures and information on the Asus flavor of the GeForce3 card. Note that the pictures were an engineering sample, and not retail. As you can see, Asus will have a normal version, as well as a deluxe version. The differences? We know that the regular version will sport 4 ns memory, and the deluxe 3.8 ns memory. The deluxe looks like a pretty full-featured card, we await the price differential. We would have liked to see some memory heatsinks and higher clock speed on at least the deluxe version.
Update: 3/22/01 According to the Asus press release, the card will be available in the beginning of April. This means it will be out soon. That also means that everything else should be in stores generally around the same time. We also find out it will $549 for the regular version and $598 for the deluxe. Is it worth the $50 upgrade? Hey, you're spending $550, might as well just get the better version :)
Update: 5/18/01 Asus has released information on their website on the deluxe version. It does bundle with their VR glasses. The Smart Doctor software also looks very good. Not only this, but it ALSO includes Ulead VideoStudio, as well as Drakan, Rollcage, and 12 other games. We're still not sure of the final price after NVIDIA made the cut backs.
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