PNY Technologies launches the HD gaming card, GeForce 9800 GX2

PNY Technologies launches the HD gaming

GeForce 9800GX2 card, the fastest card on the market ever

Mérignac, France, 18^th March 2008 - PNY Technologies has increased their consumer graphics portfolio by launching the GeForce 9800GX2 dual GPU-based graphics card. The 9800GX2 is the latest addition to the PNY Verto product range and powers extreme high definition gaming and entertainment experience.

The PNY GeForce 9800GX2 takes consumers to another dimension by allowing their pc’s to demonstrate powerful visuals, but is also up to 50% faster than its predecessor the GeForce 8800 Ultra.

Jonathan Filleau, PNY Technologies Category Manager for consumer graphics cards said “Armed with NVIDIA HybridPower™ technology, and two on-board GPUs the 9800GX2 will become the must have card for users who want the best speed and visual. When this card is paired with an additional PNY GeForce 9800GX2-base card and a 7 Series NVIDIA nForce® motherboard it makes this Quad NVIDIA SLI® technology solution the most awe-inspiring, screaming fast NVIDIA gaming platform to date.”

The PNY GeForce 9800GX2 graphics card cost £449 RRP and is now available, from PC World. In addition the 9800GX2 card comes with a 3-year replacement warranty. For more information, and technical product support please visit www.pny.eu.

Technical Specifications (please supply)

· Memory Capacity: 1GB GDDR3 (512MB per GPU)

· Memory Interface : 512bits ( 256 bits per GPU)

· Two dual dual-link DVI and one HDMI output + S/PDIF cable

· Two Boards (1 GPU per board) SLI capable

· Core clock 600 Mhz, Memory clock 2000Mhz, Shader clock 1500Mhz

· HDCP

· PCI-Express 2.0

· Stream processors: 256 (128 per GPU)

· Core Clock: 600 MHZ

· Shader Clock: 1500MHZ

· Memory Clock: 1000MHZ