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Taipei, Taiwan, May 19^th 2000—Today, most of the world’s motherboards are made in Taiwan and with ABIT they are “Very Well Made in Taiwan”. Computex is becoming more and more important as one of the world’s showcase hardware exhibitions. As one of the top motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan, ABIT has always had a big presence at the show.  This year is no exception.

New Millennium, New Directions

At every big show, ABIT likes to announce the latest and greatest products that we are working on, and this year ABIT is proud to announce a series of developments that show ABIT is growing into a multi-dimensional company. To start off, ABIT will be offering another batch of motherboards that are based on new award winning designs with a number of amazing new features added by ABIT. Not only will there be the latest designs from Intel and VIA for motherboards but ABIT is proud to announce new developments for the company.

Gentus, Linux

Continuing its dedication to the Linux community, ABIT now announces the first revision of its popular Gentus™ Linux distribution. In February 2000, ABIT became the first hardware manufacturer to show its endorsement of Linux with a brand new distribution, the primary goal being to resolve Linux/hardware incompatibility issues.  ABIT packages Gentus™ CDs with all new mainboards and maintains the Gentus community at www.gentus.com.  And now Gentus™ 2.0 expands its support to systems employing VIA and AMD hardware! Gentus 2.0™ auto-recognizes your motherboard model and suggests pre-built kernels, providing full support for ATA/66 and ATA/100. What’s more, with Gentus 2.0, you get hard drive partitioning and pre-configuration flexibility as well as enhanced RAID support that provides ATA/66 compatibility and direct install/boot capabilities.

The PerMon™ tool set is back as well, with several new additions, such as all new graphic icons and easy-to-use scale bars that provide information about the CPU and system temperatures, fan speeds, CPU Vcore and other voltage readings. The “Hard Disk Tool,” which allows easy HD parameter adjustment and provides HD performance indexes, is now available for ABIT’s VIA chipset models as well as our BX models.  And the G-Point Explorer lets you adjust your Front Side Bus speed from Xwindow (KDE or GNOME) without having to go into BIOS!  Just choose your desired FSB speed, and let G-Point Explorer do the rest.  

Gentus™ 2.0 also gives you sound capabilities unavailable with any other Linux version.  The new “ABITconf” configuration tool provides drivers for the i810 chipset’s integrated graphics controller, plus sound drivers for AC97 on the i810 and the abovementioned VIA chipsets, as well as the Creative Sound Blaster Live! Series. (No other Linux distro, including Red Hat 6.2, provides these.) Furthermore, those of you with Nvidia-based graphics cards (GeForce and TNT2) will be pleased to discover that Gentus 2.0 provides these drivers, too!    Other distributions, including Red Hat 6.1, do not. 

Looks Good

Graphics never looked so good as with ABIT’s new line of nVidia based graphics cards. Starting with the award winning Siluro line including the GT2 Ultra and GeForce 256, ABIT is proud to announce new graphics solutions at Computex. ABIT Siluro™ cards based on NVIDIA's GeForce 256 GPU with DDR and future chipsets with Full AGP 4X support

256 bit QuadPipe architecture

32/64MB High Performance DDR

DVD playback acceleration

will enable a whole new level of interactive content not previously possible. 

Sounds Good

This year at Computex ABIT is proud to announce a new line of sound peripherals. The ABIT Emodulator Card and Speaker set will provide an outstanding basis for a home theater system. Coming in a wood and metal set, the Emodulator Home Theatre AC-3 Audio Card features the following specs: 

l           Support 5.1 channel Home Theatre Speaker Output

l           A3D, DS3D, Q3D and EAX Compatible

l           Soft DVD provide Dolby Digital AC3

l           Build in power amplifier

l           Games Compatibility: Compatible with all standard Windows games and most DOS games (in Real Mode DOS)

l           Audio Inputs/Outputs: Microphone input, Line input, Line output, Aux input on internal header, CD input on internal header, 1 G9 speaker output, S/PDIF optical input

l           MIDI Interface: Hardware-based MPU-401 MIDI UART-compatible interface through joystick connector.

l           Joystick Interface: provide standard analog/digital joystick support

l         Compatibility: Windows 95/98/NT4.0/2000