Asus India Announces The EN8600GTS

The Asus EN8600GTS/HTDP/256M will be released and bundled with the much anticipated first person shooter game S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadows of Chernobyl. Equipped with 256MB of DDR3 memory and able to support NVIDIA‘s SLI technology, the graphics card is designed with the gamer's graphics expectations in mind. The card is the official global bundle partner of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. In line with this, ASUS's G1 gaming series laptop – testament to its gaming-oriented design, also features in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R game itself.



Vinay Shetty, Product Manager, Component Business, ASUS India, "The EN8600GTS graphics card is a true concentration of visual technologies for graphic card users. This card offers the latest high-resolution display technologies for the most recent games and multimedia applications."

The ASUS EN8600GTS utilizes NVIDIA's unified architecture with GigaThread technology to deliver the finest graphics and visual special effects. With full support for NVIDIA SLI technology and Microsoft DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0, this graphics card will make use of the graphical enhancements from Microsoft Windows Vista to enable stunning and complex special effects. The ASUS EN8600GTS will also feature true 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting and NVIDIA Quantum Effects technology.

Besides being bundled together with S.T.A.L.K.E.R, the ASUS EN8600GTS also comes with exclusive ASUS applications. One key feature of the ASUS EN6800GTS is full HDCP compliancy – allowing users playback of HD DVD, Blu-Ray Discs and other protected content at full HD resolutions. Furthermore, the ASUS EN8600GTS comes with a host of input and output solution. Utilizing the PCI-Express slot, this graphics card also has TV-Out, HDTV-Out, Dual DVI-I (supports two 3840 x 2400 at 30Hz resolution displays) and VGA outputs.

Bundled together with the ASUS EN8600GTS is the ASUS Gamer OSD. This feature is able to deliver Overclocking and chat options during gameplay – allowing users real-time performance upgrades when they require it.

The approximate end user price of the ASUS EN8600GTS/G/HTDP/256M (with the Stalker Game bundled) is Rs. 17000/- and the approximate end user price of the ASUS EN8600GTS/HTDP/256M (without the game bundled) is Rs. 16000/-