Thursday, October 16, 2008

Asus TW100-E5 Maximizes Professional Graphics Performance

Taipei, Taiwan
-- Engineers, designers, and power office users consistently demand
higher performance and system reliability from their desktop computing
solutions. As such, ASUS, producer of top-notch computer solutions, has
released the ASUS Workstation TW100-E5 iQuadro. Catering to the needs
of professionals who work with applications like AutoCAD and Adobe
After Effects which require a graphics solution built for
professionals, the TW100-E5 iQuadro will provide corporations with the
ability to improve productivity through enhanced computing power and
certified support for a wide range of professional graphics
applications—all without the hefty investment.

Excellent Performance in Applications Developed by Certified Partners
The
TW100-E5 iQuadro is the first workstation built with the high
performance NVIDIA Quadro FX470 chipset. Besides its support of the
integrated Quadro certification, the TW100-E5 iQuadro is also certified
to provide excellent performance across a diverse spread of
industry-leading applications developed by certified partners, such as
Computer-aided engineering (CAE), Computer-aided design
(CAD)/Autodesk/AutoCAD, Inventor, 3ds Max, Digital content creation
(DCC), Research and Geographic information system (GIS)—serving as an
impressive workstation solution that is optimized to handle
graphics-intensive tasks in these varied fields.

The NVIDIA
Quadro FX470 chipset addresses the ever-expanding graphics and parallel
processing requirements that professional applications—from volume CAD
to digital content creation applications—need. Compared to general
workstations equipped with an FX570 graphics card, the TW100-E5 is able
to support OpenGL 2.1 via its graphics chipset and deliver increased
computing performance by 10% for the AutoCAD VMB 2008 GeoMean
application.

Cost-effective Quad Display for Increased Work Efficiency
With
the industry-standard architecture of the TW100-E5 iQuadro, multiple
output functionality and support for dual-screen displays will provide
cost-effectiveness to customers. In addition, the PCI-E 2.0 x16
expansion slot supports an optional Quadro graphics card—allowing users
to further expand their screenspace for professional Quad-Display
functions to make working much more convenient.

Energy-saving Green Design

With
an emphasis on energy savings, ASUS’ green design team has developed
the TW100-E5 iQuadro into an earth-friendly product. Equipped with an
86% high efficiency power supply, the TW100-E5 iQuadro is able to
reduce power loss and save energy—helping customers save on energy
bills and cut down total cost of ownership (TCO).

Flexible Storage Options
The
TW100-E5 iQuadro supports three SATA HDDs to meet the data storage
demands of professionals. In addition, to make hardware upgrades
simpler and more convenient, the optional ASUS upgrade kits SASsaby
1064E (supports LSI Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E) and SASsaby M (supports
H/W RAID 0, 1, 10, 5) provide direct support for SAS storage and ensure
reliable data protection.

Bootup to Online in just 5 Seconds* with Express Gate
This
additional built-in Operating System makes a host of commonly-used
applications available to users in just 5 seconds from bootup,
including the web browser, instant messenger, Skype, photo manager,
music player and online games. With this convenient, instant access to
the Internet, users can now send a last-minute email before rushing off
to work, browse the Web in between appointments and reach friends and
family via the instant messenger all in the blink of an eye.

Source : http://www.hardwarezone.com/