Introduction 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.
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Dual-link DVI Able to drive two of the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600.
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.
SLI™ Technology 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 60 top PC games.
PureVideo™ PureVideo™ technology ensures support for new video formats, while its motion estimation engine (MEE) allows the card to record and play video files simultaneously without interrupting system performance. An added value PureVideo™ provides is its high-definition MPEG-2 and WMV HD hardware accelerator that take on much of the heavy lifting during playback of Hi-Def video. Other video playback enhancements include a unique color correction mechanism that will help to create a home theater from a PC.
OpenGL 2.0® Optimizations and Support Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.
PCI Express 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.
HDCP Support High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high-definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections.
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GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces the launch of their new graphics accelerators GV-NX85T256H.
Package Type:
Retail
Product Model:
GV-NX85T256H
Product Name:
GeForce 8500 GT Graphics Card
Product Type:
Graphics Card
Interfaces/Ports
Interfaces/Ports:
1 x VGA
1 x TV Out
Memory
Bus Width:
128bit
Memory Technology:
GDDR2 SDRAM
Standard Memory:
256MB
Miscellaneous
Additional Information:
nView Multi-Display Technology
SLI Technology
PureVideo technology
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) Support
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Rated by dave_l, November 30, 2007
After returning an obnoxiously loud 7300GT I decided that the only way to go was passive for an HTPC. So I settled on this card. It is great. It can handle all the tasks I want it for.
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Rated by yano, May 25, 2007
The cheapest passive card available with the exact same Purevideo HD features of the 8600 series. The only "un-documented" feature of this card is the fact that when you have a HDCP compliant display plugged into the DVI-I output and an analog display plugged in to the RGB output at the same time the RGB output is disabled until you boot into Windows XP/Vista. This is most likely related to HDCP, but can find no documentation stating this. I'm not even sure what purpose it would serve! The RGB output is active before booting to the Windows OS once you physically disconnect the display device from the DVI-I output. Not sure how this affects Linux users...
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Rated by Walter_R, May 2, 2007
Until ATI comes out with a similar card that can fully decode a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movie with it's GPU, then this card is the one to get. Low CPU utilization while playing a HD movie. Even better if it's H.264. Plus it's quiet because of it's passive cooling. Smooth playback on anything you play. Only giving it 4 stars because there's still room for improvement in the driver department but satisfied overall.
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Graphic Accelerator Cards (VGA)
All graphic cards carry a 3 year limited warranty (First 2 years parts & labor, 3rd year parts only)
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Server Boards carry a 3 years limited warranty (First 2 years parts & labor, 3rd year labor only)
Rackmount server boards carry a 3 year limited warranty (First 2 years parts and labor, 3rd year labor only)
Rackmount components carry a 2 year limited warranty
PC Barebones System
Motherboards assembled with barebones systems carry a 3 years limited warranty (1st year parts & labor, 2nd and 3rd year labor only) * Gigabyte shall provide the fees/charges for parts upon testing of motherboards in their 2nd and 3rd year of warranty
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