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2001-10-02Titanium Family chez Guillemot

Notre contact chez Guillemot nous a averti de l'arrivée prochaine des futures GeForce III Titanium. Voici un extrait du communiqué : Hercules introduces the new 3D Prophet Titanium Family A hymn to speed, power and innovation: 3 new graphics boards for a new style of gaming La Gacilly, October 1st, 2001 - Hercules is delighted to release a new family of 3D Prophet boards, based on the highly featured GeForce2 and GeForce3 Titanium 3D processors from NVIDIA. The 3 new graphics accelerators herald what will be the graphics boards of tomorrow: highly optimized 3D generators for increasingly realistic 3D games and fluid applications. An optimized graphics solution for every PC “In their constant quest for more realistic 3D and faster acceleration, game developers keep pushing the limits of 3D. For their part, every end-user has his own expectations: high frame rate gaming, impressive graphics smoothness, TV and flat panel monitor support. Over the last 19 years, Hercules’ mission has been to offer the most advanced graphics solutions for enhancing every generation of games and computer hardware. The release of the new 3D Prophet Titanium Series is in-keeping with Hercules’ strategy of ensuring the satisfaction of its end-users,” says Claude Guillemot, President of Hercules. The most powerful graphics processors teamed up with Hercules’ expertise. The new 3D Prophet Titanium line-up, consisting of 3D Prophet III Titanium 500, 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 and 3D Prophet II Titanium, offers powerful and highly featured 3D solutions to enhance the new 3D effects used by games developers. The 3 boards operate with a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) enabling turbo-boosted 3D performance in games requiring large texture buffers. 3D Prophet Titanium accelerators benefit from Hercules’ expert material adjustments, including RAM heatsinks and cooling fans, for a significant leap ahead of existing solutions. Each board also incorporates multi-media features for display through a high quality TV/Video Output on NTSC and PAL TV, and comes with PowerDVD 3.0 software for experiencing DVD movies. 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 The characteristics of the 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 place it in the ultra-fast race category. 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 is designed around the industry’s most powerful graphics processor, GeForce3 Titanium 500, with the enhanced nFinite-FX™ engine and DirectX 8 Programmable Vertex and Pixel Shaders. The 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 board is clocked at 240MHz core and ultra-fast 250MHz DDR RAM. In addition to the high-resolution TV-Output, the board supports a DVI-Output to play DVD-Videos and games on digital flat panels. 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 is engineered around the new GeForce3 Titanium 200, processing DirectX8 and new 3D games enhancements in hardware. Running at a core clock of 175MHz mated to 64MB of ultra-fast onboard DDR RAM, 250MHz qualified, it guarantees super fast gameplay in the highest resolutions. Like its sister, 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 benefits from all the technical innovations of the NVIDIA nFinite-FX™ engine and Lightspeed Memory Architecture™, and brings high-resolution anti-aliasing to your desktop for a superior image quality. 3D Prophet II Titanium 3D Prophet II Titanium is the reference 3D accelerator for all gaming enthusiasts. It is powered by the acclaimed GeForce2 NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer processor with a second-generation Transform and Lighting engine. Thanks to its 250Mhz core clock, combined with ultra fast DDR RAM, 250MHz qualified, it offers maximum acceleration and high visual quality in multi-textured 3D games, without compromising on performance at a reasonable price. Pricing, Availability and Service : - 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 will be available mid-October 2001 for 399$ (USD). - 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 will be available mid-October 2001 for 279$ (USD). - 3D Prophet II Titanium will be available mid-October 2001 for 169$ (USD).