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Experience unprecedented 37% overclocking performance

ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M comes bundled with official world touring car championship game - RACE THE WTCC.
Johannesburg, 19 Jul 2007

ASUS - leading provider of high-performance graphics solutions, today introduced the ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M.

Featuring astonishing overclocking performances and a unique fansink design, the EN8500GT TOP will be released with the ASUS exclusive official world touring car championship game - RACE THE WTCC.

Unprecedented 37% performance upgrade

With the EN8500GT TOP, gamers can expect engine clock performance boosts from 450MHz up to an incredible 600MHz*.

Such never-before-seen performance upgrades help raise the 3DMark06 score from 2211 to 3043 - an astonishing 37% faster than any other reference design boards.

Gamers will be able to feel the adrenaline rush of gaming at unprecedented performance levels only with the ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M.

18oC cooler with exclusive fansink design The EN8500GT TOP also utilises a new generation of specially-designed cooling fans that effectively dissipates heat away.

With 25% more surface area, the fansink makes for better cooling, and can lower temperatures by 18oC in comparison to reference design boards**.

Bundled official WTCC game - RACE THE WTCC

RACE THE WTCC is the first game that focuses on the hard-hitting and intense action of the exciting WTCC Championship.

The game recreates the championship vividly and is life-like in its representation and simulation of the cars and driving styles.

With such ultra-realistic graphics, it is no wonder that it takes a graphics card like the ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M with powerful performance and high quality to bring out the best visual experience of this highly realistic racing game.

Splendid video intelligence technology

With splendid video intelligence technology, images enabled by ASUS graphics cards are fine-tuned to deliver vibrant visual representations in conditions most favourable to the human eye.

Therefore, watching movies on the PC is as good as watching them on top-of-the-line consumer televisions.

Splendid is also the perfect companion to NVIDIA's PureVideo HD technology, where it provides hardware acceleration for video decoding.

Exclusive ASUS GamerOSD for versatile graphics usage

The EN8500GT TOP also comes with the exclusive ASUS GamerOSD, which unleashes the true power of ASUS's VGA cards. This feature is able to deliver GPU overclocking and chat options from onscreen displays during games - allowing users real-time performance upgrades when they require it.

Additionally, it also provides users with the option to record live gaming action or live broadcasting over the Internet with ease.

Note:

* Performance Configuration

PCI-Express 16X:
MB: A8N32-SLI Rev 1.01
BIOS: 0152
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-4600
Memory: 1024MB(DDR1 TwinMos M2S9J16A8APS9F081AA-T-512M-3200 512M*2)
HDD: Maxtor 6Y080M042541A
DVD-ROM: ASUS DVD-E616P3

**The temperature test was taken under 40oC conditions

* Specifications are subject to change without notice.
* PCB colour and bundled software versions are subject to change without notice.
* Brand and product names mentioned are trademarks of their respective company.

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