In a review conducted by one of the top IT channel magazines in Austria, AOpen¡¯s Aeolus PCX 6800-DVD256 VGA card received citation for its superior performance. 

In its Issue 233 (May 2005 issue) WCM listed the positive points of the VGA card as follows:

* very silent extra large 7-cm cooling fan.
* SilentTek Software increases the rotation speed of the cooling fan in 8 steps.
* very quite.
* 2D-Mode very silent cooling fan.
* 3D-Mode also very silent during the test.
* Iron Spine ensures that the card will never go warping.
* SLI technology supported
* According to the manufacturer, the noise level is 20dB, but in the test they never reached this noise level.
In the magazine¡¯s summary, it says, ¡°...almost noiseless in 2D-Mode and also under 3D-Mode very silent¡­ SilenTek whispers to you¡­¡±

Aeolus PCX 6800-DVD256 VGA card is showcased at the Computex Taipei 2005, starting May 31 through June 6.

The graphics processing unit (GPU) of the product is nVidia¡¯s 68000 chip, one of the most powerful GPUs on the market today. 

The information is provided by Halime Guenduez, marcom specialist of AOpen Germany GmbH.