ZOTAC unveils ION Upgrade Kits

ZOTAC has unveiled the world's first ION Upgrade Kits, including a small form factor motherboard and ZOTAC ION graphics card.

The ZOTAC ION graphics cards serve about 16 unified shaders and 512MB of DDR3 memory, allowing to support high-end features such as NVIDIA, Cuda, PureVidoe HD technologies, DirectX 10.1, DirectCompute, OpenGL, and OpenCL.

The latest product will be available in mini-ITX and mini-DTX form factors, including a PCI Express x1 ZOTAC ION graphics card with ZOTAC platforms such as select ZOTAC NM10 series, nForce 610i series, and GeForce 6100 series.

Other features are a 589MHz engine clock, 790MHz memory clockspeed, 1402MHz shader clock, and a 64-bit memory interface.

Carsten Berger, marketing director at Zotac International, said: "Zotac believes performance and compatibility should never be sacrificed for value. With the Zotac ION Upgrade Kits, you can have a premium computing experience complete with high-definition video playback, image editing, and video processing in a value package."

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