Product Positioning : Hardcore

Baseline : Become the real master of your games. Customize your PC with Power, Aggression, Devilishness and Originality!

Key Selling Points & Benefits :

• Insane fragging device for extremely high frame rates in 3D games
• Futuristic 3D architecture: Microsoft’s DirectX 9 platform
• High quality Hercules manufacturing standards
• Exceptionally high performance ATI/Hercules drivers with regular updates
• Complete range of multimedia features

Target Users : Hardcore gamers

MAIN FEATURES

• Insane Fraggin Device For Extremely High Frame Rates In 3D Games
• • Powered by ATI RADEON 9700, the benchmark technology for First Person Shooter developers.
  • 8-pixel pipeline processor, as opposed to 4-pixel pipeline on standard graphics boards: increased rendering power
  • 128MB DDR memory to push the latest games with lots of texture memory
  • High quality onboard 256-bit DDR RAM interface: no bottlenecks, faster 3D
  • HyperZ™III: intelligent memory bandwidth saving technology
  • AGP 8X / 4X / 2X for maximum performance with the latest motherboards on the market
  • Incredible benchmarking scores.

• Futuristic 3D Architecture : Microsoft's DirectX 9 Platform
• • Full DirectX® 9 & OpenGL® hardware accelerator
  • Movie-quality 3D images and ultra-realistic textures provided by ATI’s latest 3D technology innovations:
    • SMARTSHADER™ 2.0: Programmable Pixel Shaders 2.0 & Vertex shaders 2.0
    • TRUFORM™ 2.0 and DX9 Displacement mapping
    • The latest and greatest real-time 3D effects:
    • Complex lighting effects
    • Real-body animation
    • Fantastically minute details including realistic representation of skin
    • Curved surfaces
    • Shadow volume rendering acceleration
  • SMOOTHVISION™ 2.0: hardware engine for 2X/4X/6X FSAA mode – no more jagged edges

• High Quality, Stable Hercules Manufacturing

• Excellent motherboard compatibility, thanks to Hercules’ extensive quality testing program.
• Backed up by Hercules’s 20 years of experience in the graphics domain.
• 3 year warranty.
• Multi-lingual installation manuals.
• Comprehensive Hercules after-sales service.

• High-Performance Ati/Hercules Drivers With Regular Updates
  • Catalyst drivers significantly improve DirectX performance.

• Complete Range Of Video & Multimedia Features
  • Quality TV display on PC or flat panel monitor (Integrated TV-out up to 1024x768, DVI-Output up to 1600x1200).
  • VIDEOSHADER™ engine: Crystal clear, fluid playback of DVD movies on PC, TV and flat panels monitors.
  • FULLSTREAM™ technology for Internet streaming
  • Dual-Display on VGA, DVI or TV-Out (HYDRAVISION™).
  • Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs, maximum resolution of 2048x1536 @ 85Hz.

POWERDVD™ 4.0XP 3DEEP® BUNDLED SOFTWARE

View top quality video and media-rich

• DVDs on your PC with PowerDVD™ 4.0XP.
  • PowerDVD™4.0XP offers excellent sound and image quality, thanks to its MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital™ audio decoding capabilities.

• Color setting utility. 3Deep® from E-color™

• automatically adjusts the images you see onscreen, enhancing colors, lighting and shading in darker game levels.

HERCULES SUPPORT

• The product is guaranteed for exchange for up to 3 years
• Hotline and technical support available by phone or e-mail
• For news, forums, driver updates and more product info…: www.hercules.com

• 2D/3D graphics board built on RADEON™ 9700 engine with 128MB onboard DDR-RAM
• Step-by-step printed installation manual
• Installation CD-ROM

• Includes installation drivers for maximum performance and compatibility
• Online documentation and playable demos
• PowerDVD™
• 3Deep™

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® Athlon® /K6 or compatible with AGP 8X/4X/2X slot
• 128MB of system memory
• 10MB hard disk space (more for installing games)
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Supported operating systems: Windows® Me, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP