GIGABYTE GeForce 8500GT - 256MB 500MHz PCI-Express Video Card

GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces the launch of their new graphics accelerators GV-NX85T256H bundled with the official game of the 2006 WCG, Warhammer 40,000 series: Dawn of War Dark Crusade.

Being Windows Vista ready, the GIGABYTE GeForce 8500GT run Vista features quickly and seamlessly. Allowing you to play the latest Microsoft DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 games, and enjoy outstanding HD DVD/Blu-ray movie experience.

Redefine your gaming reality with the GIGABYTE GeForce 8500GT 256MB PCI Express graphics card featuring the world's first DirectX® 10 GPU and a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience. Power through games at record speeds and charge through game maps with vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting effects while steering clear of mind-blowing physics effects such as explosions, fire, and smoke. Crank up 16x full-screen anti-aliasing without missing a beat - no jaggies, no worries.

 

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 series graphics processing units (GPUs) redefine the PC gaming experience. With a revolutionary unified architecture and full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10 games, GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film quality game effects.

NVIDIA SLI™ Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games.

NVIDIA ForceWare It takes a powerful suite of software to complement these complex processors. NVIDIA ForceWare™ unified software environment (USE) is the key to unleashing the full power and features in NVIDIA's desktop, platform, mobile, and multimedia products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare ensures the best out-of-box experience for every user and delivers.

HDCP Capable Allows playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and other protected content at full HD resolutions with integrated High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) support. (Requires other compatible components that are also HDCP capable.)

High Dynamic Range (HDR) High dynamic-range(HDR) lighting effects bring environments to life for a truly immersive experience. It takes advantage of the subtle light, texture, and color intricacies to create incredibly realistic environments.

Shader Model 4.0 Technology Get your box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast shader performance and watch your characters sweat with Shader Model 4.0.

NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity.

Microsoft DirectX 10 Geometry Shaders Dynamic geometry creation smoothes surfaces and enables incredibly detailed environments, shadows, and effects.

PCI Express Support Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB/sec in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

 

Features

• Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
  NVIDIA's fourth-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista gives users the best possible experience with the Windows Aero 3Dgraphical user interface.
• NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine
  Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fast frame rates.
  - 16x Anti-aliasing: Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sam ple rates obliterates jagged edges.
  - 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR): Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects
• Full DirectX 10 Support
  World's first DirecX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphic realism and film-quality effects
• OpenGL™ 2.0 Optimizations and Support
  Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL applications. NVIDIA® nView® Multi-display Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors.
• NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
  Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU - all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI
• GigaThread™ Technology
  Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
• NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
  The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
• NVIDIA Unified Architecture
  Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering an incredibly true-to-life 3D graphics.
• nView® Multi-Display Technology
  Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors. NVIDIA GPUs are enabled to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary.
• 80nm Process Technology
  Delivers higher performance through blazing clock rates.
• Support dual-link DVI outputs up to 2560 x 1600

Minimum System Requirements

• Hardware
  - Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™
  - 128 MB of system memory; 2 GB or more for best performance
  - Optical drive for software installation (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive)
  - A power supply with 450-watt is recommended
  
  
• Operating System
  - Windows® Vista
  - Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
  - Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
  - Windows® 2000

Note: SLI technology requires a PCI Express motherboard with two PCI Express x16 physical connectors. Graphics cards working in an SLI configuration must be with the same model name and from the same vendor.