Billed as the hottest PC game release of the year, Half Life 2™ delivers an unforgettable gaming experience, capturing the hearts and imaginations of gamers worldwide.

As the industry leader in high-performance PC hardware, ABIT is proud to launch a series of graphics cards that provide the absolute best performance for Half Life 2 - the ABIT RX850 XT Series Graphics Cards. Powered by the ATI RADEON™ X850XT-PE and RADEON™ X850 XT VPUs, the world’s most powerful Visual Processing Units, ABIT’s RX850 XT-PE and RX850 XT delivers unprecedented gaming performance - killer gaming hardware with uncompromising performance and image quality for Half Life 2.

With 540MHz/520MHz core clock, 256MB GDDR3 memory, 16 pixel pipelines and breakthrough image enhancement technology, ABIT’s RX850 XT Series ushers in a new era in High Definition gaming. The advanced fabrication process and leading edge GDDR3 memory enables ABIT’s RX850 XT Series to deliver high-performance, user-friendly graphics solutions which will work in existing PCs without radical and costly power supplies or cooling upgrades.

The ABIT RX850XT Series also includes innovative new features such as the 3Dc™, a new compression technology that allows game developers to pack more fine details into real time 3D images. For gamers, this means that their game will look better than ever. 3Dc™ is slated to become the industry standard to support more complex high-definition visual effects in real time.

Since the introduction of its RADEON™ product lines, ATI is well recognized among PC gamers as being the industry leader for 3D graphics solutions. The RADEON ™ X850 XT-PE and X850 XT define a totally new High-Definition Gaming experience for the avid gamer by maximizing performance and image quality in higher detail and at higher resolutions than ever before. The ABIT RX850 XT-PE and RX850 XT give users more than just a great gaming experience. It offers the latest ATI SMARTSHADER™ HD that executes up to 1,536 instructions in a single pass, and the new shader compiler is designed to make optimal use of the new functionality.

The latest DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0 shader support is included to ensure that current and upcoming games look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition. It also has sophisticated video processing, filtering and acceleration features that make multimedia applications more efficient, inspiring and fun. The RX850 XT-PE and RX850 XT also support the latest high-definition and wide display formats, giving users bigger and more vivid movie, gaming and Internet experience.