Ontario, Calif., December 16, 2008 – PINE (HKSE: 8013.HK) today announced that its graphics division, XFX, is partnering with AMD. The collaboration will incorporate the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series GPUs into XFX’s already impressive line of extreme performance graphics cards.

“We are delighted as this partnership allows us to incorporate the current and future AMD graphics technology into our future graphics card designs, and enables our R&D teams to develop an even wider range of graphics products for our worldwide customers,” said Michael Chiu, Chairman and CEO of Pine Technology Holdings.

“In the world of PC gaming, XFX is synonymous with the extreme performance that enthusiast’s crave,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Product Group, AMD. “Their decision to partner with AMD and launch AMD GPU-based XFX graphics cards speaks to the level of excellence achieved by the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series.”

XFX will debut its first ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series-based cards in early 2009. The XFX-partnered Radeon™ products will come with all of the popular features that XFX is known for, including XFX’s unparalleled 5-Star support, access to customized drivers, and factory overclocked XXX series.

To learn more about XFX, its products, or its partnership with AMD, please visit www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

About AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home and play. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

The XFX GeForce® 9600 1.5GB Far Cry 2 Edition graphics card transforms rigs into cold-blooded killers without annihilating cash flow.  In this special edition package, XFX has bundled the most memory available in a budget-minded performance graphics card with a full release version of Ubisoft’s highly anticipated first person shooter, Far Cry 2. Balancing power and performance with price, the GeForce 9600 graphics card packs a memorable visual punch with huge memory reserves.

 

Designed to play the hottest DirectX games with blistering speed, the 9600 Far Cry 2 Edition graphics card is built for high-definition gaming, exquisite video playback and visual computing that’s sharp, clean and deadly accurate.  It’s a perfect match to enhance the game play with Far Cry 2.

 

Featuring Ninety-six processing cores, and next-generation NVIDIA PhysX, CUDA and PureVideo® HD technologies, the Geforce 9600 Far Cry 2 Edition graphics card incorporates NVIDIA® unified architecture, full Microsoft® DirectX ® Shader Model 4.0 support, true 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting and Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology to create a multi-taskmaster of a graphics card. In other words, it can kick butt, and then some.

 

The GeForce 9600 supports resolutions of up to 2560x1600 to deliver a truly extreme gaming experience. And, the 9600 Far Cry 2 Edition graphics card also is SLI®-ready, which means users can enjoy enhanced performance when paired with another 9600 GSO-based graphics card. Plus, PCIe 2.0 compatibility ensures that the amazing Far Cry 2 gaming performance holds true for tomorrow’s games and 3D applications.

 

Gamers looking for killer performance loaded up with tons of memory, that won’t kill their budget, should check out the XFX 9600 1.5GB Far Cry 2 Edition graphics card. Other than fragging opponents in Far Cry 2, the 9600 Far Cry 2 Edition graphics card is built for Microsoft Windows Vista®, which ensures a more enjoyable visual computing experience thanks to the Windows Media Center.

To learn more about XFX, please visit www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

About Far Cry 2
Developed by Ubisoft Montreal, Far Cry 2 is the newest innovation from Ubisoft in the world of next-gen first-person shooters. More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry 2 immerses players in an entirely new kind of gaming experience. Running on a tailor-made new gaming engine, Far Cry 2 features non-scripted enemy Artificial Intelligence, entirely destructible environments, dynamic fire and storm effects, and multiplayer game-play, all in a completely open world 50km2 environment. Players will find themselves immersed in a war-torn, African state, where they will be forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to survive and move ever-closer to their primary objective – the Jackal. Players must identify and exploit their enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning, and of course brute force.

About Ubisoft
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has teams in 28 countries and distributes games in more than 55 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. For the 2007-08 fiscal year, Ubisoft generated sales of 928 million Euros. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

Getting the best doesn’t have to mean paying a lot, and that’s especially true with the XFX’s Intel chipset-based motherboard—the XG3li motherboard. Offering exceptional performance for the true budget conscious user, this motherboard is built with affordability, performance and reliability in mind.

 

Built to support Intel LGA 775 processors, the XG3li can support up to 4GB of dual channel DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, delivering up to 12.8 GB/s (DDR2 800 dual 6.4GB/s) of bandwidth and 4GB memory addressability to increase system responsiveness and support for 64-bit computing. The XFX XG3li motherboard supports up to a 1333 MHz front side bus.

 

Performance is further plussed with Intel-exclusive features including Intel® Fast Memory Access, which improve system performance by optimizing the use of available memory bandwidth and reduces the latency of the memory access. Additionally, Intel® Flex Memory Technology enables easier upgrades by allowing different memory sizes to be populated and remain in dual-channel mode. And, the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 helps pop frame rates and enhance the user experience, a feature especially noticeable when using Windows Vista. Being Vista certified also helps improve system stability and compatibility.

 

Premium High Definition Audio (HDA) brings consumer electronics quality sound to a user’s PC by delivering high quality sound from multiple channels. Using HDA, systems can deliver 192 kHz/32-bit quality for up to eight channels, supporting new audio formats.

 

The XFX XG3li motherboard also features PCI Express bus architecture with a full bandwidth x16 expansion slot. Users can enjoy blazing performance by taking advantage of the latest SATA 3 Gb/s hard disk drives that offer double bus bandwidth. Not only are these high-performance drives easy to install, they consume less power than EIDE hard drives.

 

Additional XFX XG3li motherboard features include a rear panel e-I SATA port, rear panel clear CMOS button and on selected models, a Debug LED.

 

To learn more about the versatile yet affordable XFX XG3li DDR2 800 MHz motherboard, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards, and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

When it comes right down to it, the whole reason to have the best is to experience the best. And when it comes to the best motherboard for the money, nothing compares to the XFX GeForce® 9300 motherboard.

 

Without a good motherboard, your graphics are destined to be a little slower, a little flatter, and a little less exciting. Who wants less when you can have more?

 

The XFX GeForce® 9300 motherboard is unlike most motherboards on the market, delivering exceptional graphics performance thanks to state-of-the-art CUDA technology, integrated HDMI™ and DVI, PCI Express 2.0 and SATA II 3 Gb/s, all for a truly affordable price.
CUDA™ technology, the world’s only C language environment, taps into the many-core parallel processor power of the GPU to accelerate applications. Hybrid Power technology is another performance enhancement that allows the GPU to shut off during non-resource-intensive applications and instead use the integrated GPU.

 

The XFX GeForce® 9300 motherboard features a state-of-the-art DDR2 memory controller that allows high bandwidth and low latency data access to the CPU, ensuring that data and information are relayed through the system as quickly as possible for unparalleled performance.

 

“Feels like you’re in the action” sound is delivered through High Definition Audio (HDA), which not only delivers 192 kHz/32-bit quality for eight channels, but it also supports a variety of new audio formats.
An onboard HDMI™ connector that supports HDCP and security specifications for Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, generates crystal clear playback of high definition movies on your PC when connected to HDCP-capable displays. An onboard DVI port does the same, while also driving flat-panel displays that support single-link TMDS at 162 MHz pixel clock.

 

Finally, the XFX GeForce® 9300 motherboard features PCI Express bus architecture with a full bandwidth x16 expansion slot. And, users can enjoy blazing performance by taking advantage of the latest SATA 3 Gb/s hard disk drives that offer double bus bandwidth. Not only are these high-performance drives easy to install, they consume less power than EIDE hard drives.

 

Best of all, the XFX GeForce® 9300 motherboard can be yours instantly from a variety of e-tailers. To learn more about the XFX GeForce® 9300 motherboard or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com

XFX sends you deep in a war-torn African state to achieve the impossible: find the Jackal. All you are armed with is a copy of Far Cry 2, the newly released sequel to the popular game title, and an XFX GeForce® 9 Series graphics card. Because that’s all you’ll need to emerge victorious.

The XFX GeForce® 9 Series/Far Cry 2 bundle is offered exclusively by XFX, NVIDIA’s preferred board partner. Whichever XFX GeForce® 9 Series card you choose*, you are guaranteed an unparalleled gaming experience thanks to a full range of graphics management features that optimize the user experience.

Engineered for maximum performance, XFX GeForce® 9 Series GPUs come equipped with industry-leading features such as PhysX®, Cuda and Hybrid Power technology, and many offer dual and three-way SLI® mode.

PhysX is NVIDIA’s powerful physics engine that enables real-time graphics and provides an exponential increase in physics processing power. What all that means is that explosions generate dust, characters move with life-like motion; and weapons generate incredible effects. In other words, it’s the engine that generates a mind-blowing gaming experience.

CUDA™ technology, the world’s only C language environment, taps into the GPUs’ processor cores to accelerate applications. Hybrid Power technology is another performance enhancement for certain configurations that allow the graphics card to shut off during non-3D-intensive applications.

Offering an array of performance-driven specifications, the XFX GeForce® 9 Series cards are designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, and offer the highest data transfer speeds, for smoother game play and a more realistic game experience. Second generation NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology engine ensures unsurpassed Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality. Thanks to hardware acceleration, dynamic contrast enhancement and color stretch video processing, high definition movies and dual-stream picture-in-picture content are optimized on a scene by scene basis producing spectacular picture quality.

Best of all, many of the XFX GeForce® 9 Series graphics cards come with XFX’s LiveHelp support. To learn more about any XFX 9 Series card or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.

*Far Cry 2 Exclusive FREE Bundles are limited to select XFX GeForce 9-Series graphics cards.  Select GeForce GTX-Series cards also include the FREE Bundle.  Offers may vary by region.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

Mom may have been able to help you with your algebra, but all the homemade cookies in the world can’t compare with the performance features you get with ultimate “mother,” the XFX nForce® 750i SLI® motherboard.
    Our motherboard delivers performance straight out of the box, for the ultimate gaming experience. And, the 750i SLI comes with exceptional game support and bar none the fastest multi-GPU gaming platform available in the performance category.
    The  XFX 750i SLI is the perfect way to instantly upgrade to an SLI-Ready performance system. Offering the ultimate in flexibility, the XFX 750i SLI  features PCI Express 2.0 for twice the bandwidth, and is backward compatible with existing PCI Express 1.0 graphics card.
    Crafted specifically for next-generation graphics card, the XFX 750i SLI also includes full overclocking capabilities for Intel Yorkfield and Wolfdale CPUs.
    Other admirable traits include an NVIDIA control panel that enables you seamlessly monitor characteristics in an intuitive and customizable 3D environment; NVIDIA MediaShield™ storage that safeguards your digital media assets and supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 configurations and up to four SATA 4GB/s drives.
    Best of all, this motherboard is all about making you happy; Mother’s Day cards and flowers are not required.

 

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

The XFX GeForce® 9600 GSO Fatal1ty Professional Series graphics card transforms rigs into cold-blooded killers without annihilating cash flow.
    XFX’s budget-minded performance card is released in collaboration with esteemed professional gamer Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel. Balancing power and performance with price, the GeForce 9600 GSOgraphics card packs a memorable visual punch.
    Designed to play the hottest DirectX games with blistering speed, the 9600 GSO Fatal1ty Professional Series graphics card is built for high-definition gaming, exquisite video playback and visual computing that’s sharp, clean and deadly accurate.
    Featuring Ninety-six processor cores, and next-generation PhysX, CUDA and PureVideo® HD technologies, the Geforce 9600 GSO Fatal1ty Professional Series graphics card incorporates NVIDIA® unified architecture, full Microsoft® DirectX ® Shader Model 4.0 support, true 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting and Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology to create a multi-taskmaster of a graphics card. In other words, it can kick butt, and then some.
    The 9600 GSO supports resolutions of up to 2560x1600 to deliver a truly extreme gaming experience. And, the 9600 GSO Fatal1ty Series graphics card also is SLI™ ready, which means users can enjoy enhanced performance when paired with another 9600 GSO-based graphics card. Plus, PCIe 2.0 compatibility ensures that today’s amazing gaming performance holds true for tomorrow’s games and 3D applications.
    The 9600 GSO Fatal1ty Professional Series graphics card also features OpenGL® 2.0 support and is built for Microsoft Windows Vista®, which ensures a more enjoyable visual computing experience thanks to the Windows Media Center.
    Gamers looking for killer performance that won’t kill their budget should check out the 9600 GSO Fatal1ty Professional Series graphics card. To learn more about XFX, please visit www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

About Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel
The world’s first full time professional video gamer, Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel has dominated competitions worldwide, competing on six continents during his eight-year professional career. Johnathan holds an unprecedented 12 major titles in five different games and serves as on-air analyst and global spokesperson for DirecTV’s Championship Gaming Series. For more information, visit www.fatal1ty.com.

XFX’s new GeForce® 9400 GT DDR3 clears up the question: ‘Can you enjoy improved gaming and picture clarity with a budget-friendly graphics card?’ with a resounding “yes.”
    Exiling jerky graphics, annoying video start-stops and a pixeled gaming experience from your system, the XFX 9400 GT DDR3 propels gamers to the next dimension with faster DDR3 memory and a superior 3D experience in Windows® Vista™.
    Supporting up to 512 MB of standard memory and featuring an 800 MHz memory clock, this wallet-friendly graphics card offers up to three times the performance of previous generation GeForce® graphics cards, the 9400 GT DDR3 delivers smooth, lifelike game play along with astonishingly vibrant video-watching thanks to its NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD technology programming core. Dynamic Contrast Enhancement delivers exceptional picture clarity with frame-by-frame optimization.
HDCP-Capable, the 9400 GT DDR3 ensures exceptional playback of encrypted Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD movie content when connected to HDCP-compliant displays. In addition, Microsoft® Windows Media Center support enables users to increase productivity as well as share, edit and manage photos and videos better than ever before.  
The 9400 GT DDR3 is compatible with new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering twice the bandwidth of the first generation PCI Express. The card also is fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards.
    The card is PhysX™-ready, and features CUDA™ Technology. Other important 9400 GT DDR3 features include a Lumenex™ engine, 16x Anti-aliasing Technology, OpenGL® Optimization and Support and Dual 400 MHz RAMDACs that support dual QXGA displays with ultra-high refresh rates of up to 2048x1536@85Hz.
    Exile jerky graphics and annoying video start-stops for good. To learn more about the XFX GeForce 9400 GT, or to locate a participating e-tailer, visit www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

While the movie industry continues to churn out sequels and other unoriginal hype, XFX offers up something new and exciting—the XFX GeForce® 9500 GT, the ultimate multi-media multi-tasker that’s known for all it can take.
    Take One: Like taking and sharing photos? The 9500 GT delivers an improved 3D experience with Microsoft® Windows® Media Center that allows users to offload tasks from the CPU, which increases productivity and enables users to share, edit and manage photos and videos better than ever before.
    Take Two: The 9500 GT takes video playback to a new level, with advanced PureVideo® HD technology that delivers jaw-dropping Blu-ray movie picture quality with reduced CPU utilization and low power consumption.
    Take Three: Live to take out opponents? Offering a 3X performance increase over comparable 8 Series GPU and PCI Express 2.0 compatible cards, the 9500 GT delivers the most gaming horsepower available at this price point, and, since these cards are compatible with PCI Express and the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, the 9500 GT ensures that users will be able to play all of today’s—and tomorrow’s—games the way they were meant to be played.
    Take Four: All of these breath-taking features can be doubled. The XFX GeForce 9500 GT is SLI® ready, which means that users can purchase two cards to deliver twice the performance of a single-card set-up.
    Which is why we recommend that you take five and head for your nearest e-tailer.
    To learn more about the XFX GeForce 9500 GT, or to locate a participating e-tailer, please visit www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

XFX GeForce® GTX 200 Series Graphic Cards Offer a Total Immersive Experience: Real Life Isn’t This Intense

Ontario, Calif., June 16, 2008 – In gaming, “reality” is one of those often over-used descriptors that falls short of, well, reality. Until now. XFX has released the ultimate gaming graphic cards: the XFX GeForce® GTX 280 and GeForce® GTX 260. Harnessing the power of second generation unified architecture, SLI technology and top-of-the-line DirectX 10 support, gaming “reality” has now become a truly in-your-face experience, delivered in blazing fast frame rates.

 

The real world is for lightweights compared to the experience delivered by the GeForce® GTX 280. Second generation NVIDIA® Unified Architecture delivers up to 50% more gaming performance (compared to the first generation) thanks to 240 enhanced processing cores and a GPU clock of 602 MHz that provide incredible graphics horsepower. The GeForce® GTX 260 is no slouch, either, with 192 processing cores and a GPU clock of 576 MHz.

 

Gamers will get pulled deeper into the 3D gaming experience thanks to NVIDIA’s new PhysX™ technology that renders convincing facial expressions, multiple ultra-high polygon characters in complex environments and convincing physical effects like weather and explosions. Both cards come NVIDIA PhysX®-Ready, however NVIDIA Phys drivers are required to experience in-game PhysX acceleration.

 

Three-way NVIDIA SLI® Technology support ensures powerful performance scaling by implementing three-way Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) for the world’s fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista.

 

PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offers the highest data transfer speeds for today’s bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, and is backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards.

 

NVIDIA CUDA™ technology and the new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista enables programmers to offload the most intensive processing tasks from their CPU to their graphic card, putting the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores to work for you. From transcoding video or running Folding@home in the background while web surfing, the GeForce® GTX 200 Series deliver performance improvements of up to seven times of the traditional CPU.

 

HybridPower™ Technology, GigaThread™ Technology, Lumenex™ Engine, 16x Anti-aliasing Technology, and 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting guarantees top-of-the-line performance right out of the box. OpenGL 2.1 support, Dual Dual-link DVI Support, PureVideo® HD Technology and dual-stream hardware acceleration rounds out the leading features.
    

To learn more about the XFX GeForce® GTX 280 and GeForce® GTX 260, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.
    
    
About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

XFX’s newest release, the GeForce® 9800 GTX+ graphics card disproves a common theory in the gaming world—that a modestly priced card delivers only modest performance. In fact, XFX’s 9800 GTX+ turns that notion on its ear, and then some.
    With 128 screaming fast cores that each run a new record high 1836 MHz, the GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card is truly the Tasmanian Devil of the category. Faster than any graphics card in the $230 price range, the XFX 9800 GTX+ simultaneously delivers the most exceptional gaming experience possible—even at extreme HD resolutions.
    The XFX 9800 GTX+ is loaded with all of the features hardcore gamers have come to expect, such as PhysX™ technology that transforms the overall gaming experience with realistic facial movements, weather effects and explosions. NVIDIA CUDA™ technology and new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista enables users to offload intensive processing tasks from their CPUs to their graphics card. It has 128 processor cores for maximum performance across an endless array of computing tasks. HybridPower™ technology allows users to save power by shifting to their motherboard’s onboard graphics (HybridSLI capable motherboard required) when running less graphically intense applications.
    Fully optimized gaming can be achieved by running three XFX GeForce® 9800 GTX+ graphics cards in three-way NVIDIA SLI® mode on one of XFX’s nForce® 780i SLI or 790i SLI motherboards. The three-way SLI systems generate up to a 2.8X performance increase over a single graphics card. And, the XFX GeForce® 9800 GTX+ is designed for the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture featured in nForce 7 series and GeForce 8 series motherboards, ensuring the highest data transfer speeds for today’s bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications. Users can even fine-tune their performance with the 9800 GTX+’s ESA-enabled control panel.
    The XFX 9800 GTX+ features a second generation NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology engine which ensures unsurpassed High Def movie picture quality thanks to features such as dynamic contrast enhancement, color stretch video processing and dual-stream picture-in-picture content.
    A supremely loaded graphics card, the XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ truly delivers the ultimate bang for under $230 bucks. To learn more about the XFX GeForce® 9800 GTX+, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.
    
    
About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards,  and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

Freshly exposed to the light of day are XFX’s most rare—and nimble—graphics cards, the XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GTX and the XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GX2 Black Editions. Faster than any card in the XFX lineup—or any card on the planet for that matter—these limited edition graphics cards are the real XFX family jewels.

 

Both cards are overclocked beyond XXX, making them the card of choice for the serious enthusiast. These elite performers are also quite exclusive, with each one hand-picked and tested for quality assurance.  To enhance the Black Edition experience, the 9800 GTX and 9800 GX2 Black Editions also come with dedicated LiveHelp support for U.S. customers and priority LiveHelp support for select regions.

 

Aside from being fast, these cards can deliver a serious smackdown in 3-way SLI or quad SLI-mode. Three 9800 GTX cards can be put together to run 3-way SLI® mode on one of XFX’s new nForce® 780i SLI or 790i Ultra SLI motherboards. Two 9800 GX2 cards, paired with an XFX nForce® 790i Ultra SLI motherboard delivers a true Quad SLI technology solution.

 

Both cards also deliver unsurpassed Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality thanks to hardware acceleration of high definition movies and dualstream picture in-picture content and spectacular picture quality that has been optimized on a scene-by-scene basis through dynamic contrast enhancement and color stretch video processing.

 

The 9800 GTX is a silent powerhouse that utilizes HybridPower™ technology to enable users to switch their graphics card to their motherboard GeForce GPU when surfing the Web, working or running less graphically intense applications. Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture that is featured in nForce® 7 series motherboards, the 9800 GTX offers the highest data transfer speeds, so that it can accommodate today’s bandwidth hungry games and 3D applications.

 

The GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card already delivers the punishing power of two GeForce 9800 GPUs in a single graphics solution. It also features NVIDIA HybridPower™ technology, 256 screaming fast stream processors and a 1 GB framebuffer. Without the overclocking, the 9800 GX2 clocked in at up to 50 percent faster across games than the GeForce 8800 Ultra. Imagine what the Black Edition will do.

 

To learn more about the XFX NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 and the XFX NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Black Editions, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

The XFX nForce® 790i Ultra SLI:
 The only motherboard solution that supports DDR3 memory and 3-way SLI.

XFX introduces the XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GX2-based graphics card, a true gold medalist of graphics solutions. XFX harnesses today’s most advanced technologies to create an absolute Olympian, which offers the most powerful performance for gamers and entertainment enthusiasts alike.

Specifically, the GeForce 9800 GX2-based graphics card combines the power of two GeForce 9800 GPUs into a single graphics solution. Featuring NVIDIA HybridPower™ technology, 256 screaming fast stream processors and a 1 GB framebuffer, this powerhouse clocks in at up to 50 percent faster across games than the industry’s previous top athlete, the GeForce 8800 Ultra.

The 9800 GX2’s powerful dual-GPU design enables smooth game play at resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600, even with all available in-game features turned on. It is also designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.

Pair up this graphics athlete with an additional 9800 GX2-based card and one of the newly released XFX nForce® 790i Ultra SLI® motherboards for a true performance technology solution that brings home the gold with scorching frame rates, true-to-life extreme HD gaming and picture-perfect Blu-ray and HD DVD movies.

The new nForce 790i Ultra SLI® motherboard, for example, is the only platform that supports DDR3 SLITM-Ready memory with EPP 2.0 and provides world-record setting memory speeds up to 2GHz. With a 1600 MHz FSB the XFX’s 790i Ultra SLI motherboard is the foundation for the world’s ultimate gaming PC, enabling users to build the fastest, most overclockable Intel CPU-based rig and experience unmatched DirectX® 10 gaming for 2-way and 3-way SLI. This motherboard is also ESA certified.

The 9800 GX2 graphics card utilizes a second generation NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology engine for an unsurpassed home theater experience. Users experience unprecedented HD picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color and precise image scaling for movies or video. PureVideo is a discrete programmable processing core that provides ultra smooth movies with 100 percent of H.264 video decoding from the CPU with significantly reduced power consumption.    

Hardware Decode Acceleration provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV and MPEG-2 HD and SD movies. Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration supports picture-in-picture content and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch ensures post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies on scene-by-scene basis with spectacular picture quality. An integrated HDMI™ connector allows users to send both high-definition video and audio signals to their HDTVs via a single cable.

The 9800 GX2 graphics card goes the distance with additional technological advancements, such as the ability to enlarge lower resolution movies and videos to HDTV resolutions, recover original film images from films-converted-to-video, noise reduction and edge enhancement that ensures that the user experience is truly the gold standard.

Best of all, XFX’s 9800 GX2 come with XFX’s LiveHelp support. To learn more about the XFX NVIDIA GeForce® 9800 GX2 graphics card, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

With its “XXX Alpha Dog” designation, all-out, hard-core, in-your-face action is the expectation, and the XFX GeForce® GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition definitely delivers, because this card is all about raw, unadulterated speed. Pushing past its littermate, the XXX Edition, the Alpha Dog dashes by like a greyhound.

 

The most recent release in the highly anticipated 9-series pack, the 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition delivers an impressive 740 MHz right out of the box. And this performer has the potential to play even harder, generating up to 90 percent greater performance than many of the GeForce cards littering the shelves.

 

Derived from next-generation GeForce and PureVideo® HD technologies and built with the best of the best all around parts, gamers can get their kill on and enjoy exceptional home theater picture clarity for their HD DVD and Blu-ray movies—and not go broke in the process.

 

Its powerfully immersive entertainment experience is the product of full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 support, NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ technology and ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture, as well as an NVIDIA®  Lumenex™ engine, which enables this card to play the hottest games with blistering speed.

 

NVIDIA SLI® Technology enables users to pair up this speed demon with an identical 9600-based card for up to two times the performance of a single-card set-up. Create a mother and child reunion by pairing it with an XFX nForce® motherboard to create the ultimate graphics platform.

 

Compatible with PCI Express and the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, the Geforce 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition aggressively devours today’s bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications. It even ensures top-notch capability and performance for OpenGL applications.

 

But this card is equally exceptional outside the gaming arena, with users enjoying a premium 3D user experience with Windows Vista and Windows Media Center. And, by offloading the CPU, the GeForce 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition enables users to work on other tasks, such as sharing, editing and managing photos and videos. NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology ensures superb picture quality and ultra-smooth movies with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU and significantly reduced power consumption.

 

Dual dual-link DVI support enables the 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition to drive the industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600, and also supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Blazing-fast, dual 400 MHz RAMDACs support dual QXGA displays with super-fast ergonomic refresh rates of up to 2048x1536 @ 85 Hz.

 

To learn more about the XFX GeForce® 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition graphics card, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.
    
    
About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

The XFX GeForce® 9600 GT is a true wonder child, derived from next-generation GeForce graphics with PureVideo® HD technology enabling HD DVD and Blu-ray video playback with brilliant clarity. Best of all, this baby is impressively affordable.

 

The first born in the highly anticipated 9-series, the XFX GeForce 9600 GT pushes the gaming experience to new heights with up to 90 percent greater performance than any GeForce card in its class. This prodigal child gives a huge value for its price. The immersive entertainment experience is the powerful product of full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 support, NVIDIA®’s Quantum Effects™ technology, Lumenex™ engine as well as Unified Architecture, ensuring that this amazing new card can play the hottest games with jaw-dropping speed.

 

Its standard heart runs a core speed of 650 MHz, with XFX overclocked versions available in the Extreme and XXX editions pushing 680 MHz and 700 MHz. On top of its impressive speeds, the 9600 GT is HDMI capable with the use of HDMI certified components.  The 9600 GT XXX edition is fully HDMI certified and includes an HDMI component kit and Company of Heroes as a bonus game bundle.

 

NVIDIA SLI® Technology enables users to pair this little killer with an identical 9600-based card for up to two times the performance of a single-card set-up. Create a mother and child reunion by pairing it with an XFX nForce® motherboard to create the ultimate graphics platform.

 

Compatible with PCI Express and the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, the Geforce 9600 GT graphics card was born to take on today’s—and tomorrow’s—most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications. It even ensures top-notch capability and performance for OpenGL applications. Experience the most realistic game effects in today’s hot titles, such as Crysis, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Unreal Tournament 3 and Assassin’s Creed.

 

But this card is just as admirable outside the gaming arena. Users also enjoy a premium 3D user experience with Windows Vista and Windows Media Center. And, by offloading the CPU, the GeForce 9600 GT enables users to work on other tasks, such as sharing, editing and managing photos and videos. NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology ensures superb picture quality and ultra-smooth movies with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU and significantly reduced power consumption. Dual dual-link DVI support enables the 9600 GT to drive the industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600, and also supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
To learn more about the XFX GeForce® 9600 GT graphics card, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.
    
    
About XFX
XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.

With the smallest memory in the pack, it’d be easy to label the XFX GeForce® 8800 GS the runt of the litter, but nothing could be further from the truth.

That’s because this 384 MB card has a killer instinct and looks to kill, offering its users the ability to achieve the same gaming feats of grandeur as a standard XFX GeForce® 8800 GTS 640 MB graphics card as well as the ultimate in Blu-ray and HD DVD movie experiences available on a gaming PC.

For the gaming enthusiast, the XFX GeForce® 8800 GS is remarkably friendly for an Alpha Dog, compatible with the new PCI-E 2.0 bus architecture ensuring a guaranteed fair fight in any of tomorrow’s bandwidth-demanding gaming environments. Powered by a 580 MHz core clock, a 1.4 GHz memory clock and 96 stream processors, the XFX GeForce® 8800 GS graphics card basically has pit bull powered-jaws that put a significant bite into any gaming experience. Add more to its bite with an available overclocked XXX Version: 680 MHz core clock, 1.6 GHz memory clock and boost performance to shred your foes.

For movie buffs, the XFX GeForce® 8800 GS graphics card features the revolutionary second generation NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD engine, bringing astonishing Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality to any user’s PC, with 100 percent offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU with significantly reduced power consumption.

And, as every gamer has come to expect of an XFX graphics card, the XFX 8800 GS comes HDCP capable, with 16x full-screen anti-aliasing that eliminates those pesky jagged edges, full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shadow Model 4.0 support, true 128-bit floating point high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, NVIDIA® Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology, and OpenGL 2.0 support.

Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™, this XFX 8800 GS graphics card has two dual-link DVI outputs that support two 2560x1600 resolution displays and it is SLI™ ready. It also has NVIDIA® unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology for extreme processing efficiency.

As you can see, this diminutive graphics card may at first appear to be a harmless puppy, but upon closer inspection, it’s a true pack leader. To learn more about the XFX GeForce® 8800 GS 384 MB graphics card, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to www.xfxforce.com.

About XFX

XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards, motherboards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at www.xfxforce.com.