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Tuesday January 21, 2003

PNY Technologies Empowers Workstation Market With the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX Series of Professional Graphics Solutions

PNY Technologies(R) today introduced groundbreaking 3D hardware, the PNY NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) FX(TM) series of professional graphics solutions for workstation professionals. Powered by NVIDIA Corporation's newest workstation graphics solution, the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX makes real-time rendering for leading computer aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) applications an integral part of the design workflow. In February, the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 and the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 will be available from PNY to system integrators, distributors and value-added resellers throughout the United States and Europe.

"Partnering with a technology innovator such as NVIDIA allows us to provide the widest range of professional graphics boards for the most demanding range of CAD and DCC workstation applications," said Drew Singh, director of Quadro sales for PNY. "We will continue to empower our channel partners with the kind of hardware that defines performance and epitomizes the highest standard in quality--as the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series has already been met with immediate industry acceptance by leading Workstation System Integrators."

Workstation System Integrators announcing systems that include the new PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series of professional graphics boards include: ARM Systems, BOXX Technologies, Colfax International, Core Microsystems, MaxVision, NTSI, TriStar Systems and Xi Computers.

"Digital content creators demand uncompromised computing solutions," says Todd Bryant, CTO of BOXX Technologies. "Our partnership with PNY allows us to meet those demands and deliver XXtreme 3DBOXX workstations with the latest hardware, including NVIDIA's new Quadro FX architecture, to our customers."

The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series delivers unmatched speed and efficiency and includes an architecture that doubles previous industry leading application performance. The boards now feature full 128-bit IEEE floating-point precision that allows for the highest level of accuracy and the ultimate visual quality. Moreover, advanced Cg programmability empowers a new class of special effects for OpenGL(R) and DirectX(R) applications for real-time rendering. Lastly, the new solution is certified by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications.

The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX series consists of:


-	PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000: This solution offers up to twice the application performance over previous generation 3D graphics hardware. Standard with 128 MB of DDR2 SDRAM, two DVI-I output connectors and two DVI-I to VGA adapters, the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX also supports stereo 3D via a standard 3-pin connector. MSRP $1,995
-	PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000: Offering more than 150 percent performance improvement over previous generation 3D graphics hardware, this Professional solution with 128 MB of DDR2 SDRAM, two DVI-I output connectors, and two DVI-I to VGA adapters. The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX also supports stereo 3D via a standard 3-pin connector. MSRP $1,295

All products in the PNY NVIDIA Quadro family come with a three-year warranty (one year standard plus two additional years upon completion of a registration form on PNY's Website). For additional information, visit PNY's website at www.pny.com/quadro.