TYAN Computer today announced its TACHYON G9700 PRO graphics card powered by the RADEON 9700 PRO graphics processor and equipped with 128MB of DDR SDRAM memory. The device is based on the revised reference design, a D-Sub, DVI-I and a TV-Out are present.

The TACHYON G9700 PRO is also equipped with on-board hardware monitoring (fan, voltage, temperature, etc.) and a specially developed driver for overclockers that will allow end-users to clock their VPUs at up to astonishing 400MHz core-speed. TYAN’s engineers have specially designed an efficient heat-sink to cool the graphics card down. What is also very interesting is that TYAN utilises the new revision of ATI’s PCB design - the product now works on all AGP 8x supporting platforms, unlike some other graphics cards powered by the RADEON 9700 PRO (see this news-story for details). Frankly speaking, certain mainboard makers already confirmed that the problems were with their products, not with ATI’s, but the company still decided to revise the PCB design in order to increase compatibility of the devices.

TYAN is one of a few companies to produce the PCBs for the RADEON 9700 PRO based graphics cards and not only reselling the products built by ATI Technologies.

Nothing is said in regards pricing and availability of the TACHYON G9700 PRO.