ASUS Extreme AX1300PRO with 256MB DDR2

Introduction:

   If you are looking for a graphics card with a punch but can't afford the hit to your wallet, the X1300 series of cards may be the choice for you. The Asus Extreme AX1300PRO comes with 256MB of RAM, and will run just about every game on the market. Of course, don't expect to crank all the settings to High and have it run like a X1900. But its GPU, an ATI® Radeon® X1300PRO, is a version of the X1800 GPU, so it shares many of the same capabilities and performance attributes.

   ASUS states that the Extreme AX1300PRO provides "high quality, better performance, and [an] affordable price. Incorporating exclusive technologies, such as ASUS Splendid, GameLive Show, GameReplay, and GameFace Messenger, ASUS EAX1300PRO/TD/ 256M is a new and powerful model targeted to address the entry-level segment of the discrete desktop market. [They] believe this model will deliver exceptional quality and performance to the most demanding user for 3D games, streaming media, digital video, and office applications."

About The Company:

    ASUS, a technology-oriented company blessed with one of the world's top R&D teams, is well known for high-quality and innovative technology. As a leading provider of 3C (computers, communications and consumer electronics) total solutions, ASUS offers a complete product portfolio to compete in the new millennium.

    In 2005, ASUS shipped 52 million motherboards, which means one out of every 3 desktop PCs sold last year was powered by an ASUS motherboard. If we line them up side by side, the length will be longer than the distance from New York to San Francisco.

    ASUS products' top quality stems from product development. It's like learning Chinese Kung-Fu; one must begin with cultivating the "Chi" and inner strength. Besides innovating cutting-edge features, ASUS engineers also pay special attention to EMI (electromagnetic interference), thermal, acoustics and details that usually go unnoticed to achieve complete customer satisfaction. ASUS notebooks are the first TCO'99-certified notebooks worldwide. The requirements for this honor include radiation emission control, energy (battery consumption), ecology (environment friendly) and ergonomics.

    To succeed in this ultra-competitive industry, great products need to be complimented by speed-to-market, cost and service. That's why all 58,000 employees of ASUS strive for the "ASUS Way of Total Quality Management" to offer the best quality without compromising cost and time-to-market while providing maximum value to all customers through world-class services.

    ASUS won 1706 awards in 2005 from the world's most respected IT media and organizations. Business Week ranked ASUS amongst its "InfoTech 100" for the eighth straight year. The readers of Tom's Hardware Guide, the world's largest IT website, selected ASUS as the best maker of motherboards (4 consecutive years) and graphics cards (two consecutive years). Furthermore, the company took home the prestigious "National Award of Excellence" presented by the Ministry of Economics Affairs and Germany's Industries Forum (iF) Gold Award for industrial design excellence.

Specifications:

• Graphics Engine ATI Radeon X1300PRO

• Video Memory 256 MB DDR2

• Engine Clock 600MHz

• Memory Clock 800MHz(400MHz DDR2)

• RAMDAC 400MHz

• Bus Standard 16 lanes PCI Express

• Memory Interface 128-bit

• Max Resolution 2048x1536

• TV Output Yes

• VGA Output Standard 15-pin D-sub

• DVI Output DVI-I

• 2nd VGA Output Yes, via DVI-to-VGA adaptor

• Adaptor/Cable bundled S-Video & composite cable

• DVI-to-2nd VGA adaptor