Sources close to ABIT Computer confirmed a shift in the company’s strategy and intention to produce graphics cards based on processors from ATI Technologies and eXtreme Graphics Innovation early next year. Bjorn3D.com and NVision.pl web-sites recently reported that ABIT is very likely to jump on ATI Technologies’ bandwagon in Q1 2004 with RADEON 9600 XT and RADEON 9800 XT graphics cards featuring ABIT’s powerful and noisy OTES cooling solution. Sources of X-bit labs confirmed the information about ABIT’s plans to manufacture Powered by ATI RADEON cards as well as products based on XGI graphics chips.

ABIT Computer has always been a close partner of Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA Corporation, who supplied GPUs as well as nForce and nForce2 chipset products – two Socket A chipsets adored by hardware enthusiasts – to the mainboard company. Even though ATI’s high-end visual processing units have been more powerful and successful than NVIDIA’s expensive GPUs launched in 2003, ABIT did not changed its graphics partner, as the company did not produce graphics cards in very high quantities and there was no point to establish partnerships with two or more companies developing visual technologies. Therefore, ABIT is probably going to perform some changes in its strategy, as three suppliers of chips for graphics cards may be a result of plans to significantly increase graphics cards production.

Normally, companies who utilize both chipsets as well as graphics processors from NVIDIA have some benefits in working with the company. However, the sources reckon that ABIT was not among the first Taiwanese hardware makers to receive GPUs from the Santa Clara, California-based chip designer. As a consequence, ABIT was relatively late to market with its GeForce products

News source: X-Bit Labs

What's New in This Release:

· added Visual Styles XP for modern windows look
· ordered and improved configuration window, removed non-used options, other improved
· improved closing player with Alt + F4
· playlist: improved look and highly increaded speed of work
· playlist: showing list on bordered full screen in player fullscreen mode
· configuration: added subtitles smooting display option
· configuration: added hardware transparency for OSD display (Windows 2000/XP)
· configuration: added option for setting system audio mixer
· configuration: added option for setting popupmenu on video window
· new version of default, Ocean skin
· repaired incorrect display of program logo in Windows 9X systems
· improved and expanded tray popup menu, showed now on main program window too, with right mouse button
· added computer turning off after current movie finish (popup menu) or playing by playlist finish (button at bottom of playlist)
· added loading movie file by dragging (drag & drop) its icon with mouse cursor on player panel
· added displaying sound volume state on OSD, when changed by mouse wheel
· faster switching of fullscreen/window modes
· removed command control error, when command used in program loading progress
· added program logo color change to red, when movie cannot be loaded
· added creating file list in playlist by dragging folders and files to list view
· added loading subtitles into current opened movie by dragging subtitle file on player control panel
· new, improved, polish/english installer
· added list of selectable subtitles to popupmenu
· improved showing OSD information. Now, showing all information on one call of "Display" function (default 'W' button). It shows current time, movie end time, starting and ending position time
· removed error of incorrect loading movie files by association
· improved taskbar hiding, when switched to fullscreen
· added TVTool program support. Switching TV/Monitor display mode with popup menu


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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by DJ Prem on 16 Dec 2003 - 16:45
another blow for NVIDIA does not look like NVIDIA is going to recover from these ATI blows one after the other....
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by dismuter on 16 Dec 2003 - 18:02
They won't recover if they fail to deliver a good NV4x line-up. Personnally I lost hope in the NV3x family a long time ago, but I since the NV4x is a new architecture, I'm looking forward to it.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by badall on 16 Dec 2003 - 17:40
does nvidia have any partners left ?
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by cesardrgn on 17 Dec 2003 - 15:56
A few i think...
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by toadeater on 16 Dec 2003 - 21:34
Let me know when your ATI cards stop crashing. Bwahahhaaaa!
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by Panorama on 16 Dec 2003 - 22:57
Um... I don't know about you but my ATI card has never "crashed". Been working fine for me.
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by JaggedFlame on 17 Dec 2003 - 00:48
If "never crashed" falls under "stops crashing," then yes, my card has stopped crashing.
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