EVGA.com
Expands Retail Business with Partnership at Best Buy
Brea,
CA-September 13, 2002- EVGA.com, a leading provider
of graphics accelerators, today announced that it has
entered into an agreement with the retailer Best Buy
to provide retail product, both AGP and PCI versions
of NVIDIA’s GeForce4
MX420 chipset. Expect products to
be available in selected Best Buy stores by mid September.
EVGA.com’s
product is the first retail offering to include nVDVD™
software from NVIDIA. nVDVD™ is a complete software
DVD solution designed to provide crisp DVD playback
as well as delivering a home theater-like experience
on mobile and desktop PCs. “This excellent software
application takes advantage of the video acceleration
features of NVIDIA’s GPU’s which gives
a perfect match between hardware and software,”
stated Keith Rochford, Chief Engineer of EVGA.com
The GeForce4
MX420 family - delivering features
such as Accuview Antialiasing, nVIEW Multi-Display
technology, and Lightspeed Memory Architecture II
– is the best price to performance value on
the market today. Both AGP and PCI versions come with
a TV out connector and EVGA.com’s proprietary
ADM software installation utility for easy setup and
configuration. These products are being released into
the add-in video card market as a mainstream video
graphics solution to support today’s advanced
3D entertainment, educational, internet, and business/SOHO
applications.
This
partnership with Best Buy provides consumers the opportunity
to acquire
EVGA.com products previously available in the channel
to VAR’s, dealers, and system integrators.
About
EVGA.com
Founded in 1999, EVGA.com has grown exponentially
in the channel first serving the system builder niche,
followed by general distribution, and now our entry
into the retail market. EVGA.com offers only graphics
cards based on NVIDIA chipsets and has received wide
acceptance of their products having shipped millions
of cards into the channel. For further information
about EVGA.com, visit http://www.evga.com.
About
Best Buy Stores
Best Buy Stores, owned and operated by Minneapolis-based
Best Buy Co., Inc., is the top U.S. retailer of technology
and entertainment products and services. Best Buy
was founded in St. Paul, Minn. in 1966. Best Buy Stores
reach an estimated 300 million consumers per year
through more than 500 retail stores in 47 states and
online at BestBuy.com. For more information about
Best Buy, visit the virtual pressroom at http://onlinepressroom.net/bestbuy.
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