ABIT Launches the R9550-Guru Graphics Card Series
vGuru Technology comes to the budget card segment

October 22, 2004 – Since the introduction of its OTES™ cooling technology, ABIT has raised what people have come to expect from a graphics card. Today, ABIT launches the R9550-Guru graphics card series, featuring ABIT's exclusive vGuru™ and XTurbo™ technologies. With vGuru and XTurbo, the R9550-Guru series offers solid graphics performance, allowing users to take full advantage of the RADEON 9550 VPU.

Based on the ATI Radeon 9550 VPU, ABIT's R9550-Guru Series delivers full DirectX® 9 support, 128MB of DDR, and exclusive vGuru and XTurbo technologies, the R9550-Guru series redefines the budget card segment with both power and control for today's 3D applications.

ABIT's vGuru™ Delivers XTurbo™ Performance

Based on ABIT's renowned µGuru™ motherboard technology, ABIT's vGuru™ places unprecedented graphics power and control into the hands of the user. vGuru takes OC Guru™ overclocking, Fan EQ™ fan control, and BlackBox™ diagnostic technologies, and applies them to ABIT's graphics card lineup with an easy-to-use Windows-based interface. With vGuru, users are able to harness the raw potential of ABIT's graphics cards and walk the path of enlightened stability and performance.

OC Guru™ gives the user more control over their graphics cards than ever before. Exclusively on vGuru-enabled ABIT graphics cards, OC Guru not only allows the user to adjust VPU and memory operating frequencies but VPU and memory operating voltages as well. With voltage settings enabled, users can finally seek the maximum overclock, without having to be held back by voltage inadequacies. OC Guru's user-friendly interface also acts as a VGA card monitor, displaying core and memory frequencies, voltages and temperatures, along with fan speeds. OC Guru is simply the most comprehensive graphics card overclocking technology available.

Fan EQ™ smart fan technology adapts to the temperature of your VPU and adjusts the cooling fan accordingly. With it, users can set the high, medium, and low temperature thresholds for Fan EQ to respond to. If the temperature reaches your preset limits, Fan EQ automatically adjusts the fan speeds accordingly. This allows the user to enjoy the best of both worlds - silent computing when the VPU is under load, and high-powered cooling during intense 3D games.

vGuru takes the hassle out of traditional technical support with BlackBox™. BlackBox technology automatically detects system information which can be sent directly to ABIT Tech Support via e-mail for processing. No more filling out forms and looking up lengthy model numbers. BlackBox does it all quickly and easily with a click of the mouse, allowing you to get fast and friendly support if the need arises.

ABIT XTurbo™ technology allows you to effortlessly squeeze extra performance from your graphics card. Developed by ABIT Engineers, XTurbo™ equips the graphics card with not one but two BIOS chips. With the easy-to-adjust hardware jumper, users can select between normal and XTurbo™ operating modes for a performance gain of up to 25%! What's more, a dual BIOS configuration on the graphics card acts as a backup solution. Should one BIOS become corrupted for any reason, the second one kicks in, allowing the user to re-flash the other one. Now that's BulletProof Technology.

See What Others Can't

R9550-Guru Series is fully compatible with ABIT's Guru Clock accessory, found bundled with ABIT 3rd Eye Series motherboards such as the AA8-3rd Eye and KV8 Pro-3rd Eye. Acting as an external display, Guru Clock allows the user to monitor critical system information quickly and easily. With conventional hardware monitoring software, users would traditionally have to exit full screen applications to access system temperatures, voltages, and fan speeds. With its large, easy-to-read LCD display, Guru Clock makes this information available at a glance. Now, users no longer have to interrupt what they are doing to monitor their systems. With Guru Clock, users can monitor VPU temperatures, frequencies and fan speeds with ease, making a perfect environment for performance and stability.

Product Positioning

ABIT's Advanced Durability brings greater responsibility to the motherboard manufacturers in creating durable products with quality, reliability and stability engineered for long-term, problem-free use. All of ABIT motherboards are Advanced Durability tested and approved. ABIT looks to all motherboard makers to make a similar durability commitment to the end-user.

For more information on the ABIT R9550-Guru Series, go here: ABIT R9550-Guru

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