Lijkt erop dat die Packard Hell en Compaq bakken eindelijk van een redelijke videokaart voorzien gaan worden, want nVidia is er in geslaagd om een OEM deal met beide bedrijven binnen te hengelen:
NVIDIA's products have been chosen to boost graphics performance on both the PACKARD-Bell Platinum line and Compaq Pesario platforms. The RIVA TNT2 Pro 3D on PACKARD-Bell's new Pentium III machines will deliver 286 million pixels of processing power per second with a 32MB frame buffer, 32-bit color pipeline and 32-bit Z-stencil buffer. The Riva card supports OpenGL and Direct3D acceleration.NVIDIA's GeForce 256 is now available through Compaq's "Built For You" self-configuration program for the Presario. The GeForce 256 includes nearly 23 million transistors, more than twice the complexity of the Intel Pentium III microprocessor. With powerful floating-point calculation capabilities, the device delivers 15 million sustained polygons per second and 480 million pixels per second. GeForce 256 supports up to 128MB of frame buffer memory, full AGP with fast writes, and a 350MHz RAMDAC to drive resolutions and color depths up to 2048x1536 at 75Hz.
