Nvidia and PNY Technologies today announced that they have teamed up as key sponsors of the Cyberathlete Professional League's (CPL) Pentium 4 Processor Winter Event. The annual competition pits the world's greatest professional computer gamers against each other for the chance to win $140,000 in cash prizes. The event will be held from December 18-22 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas.

Named the official graphics card providers of the CPL, Nvidia and PNY will outfit all of the PC's used in competition with PNY Verto graphics cards powered by Nvidia GeForce GPUs, and serve as lead sponsors of the $30,000 Unreal Tournament 2003 (UT2K3) Championship. Nvidia also plans to host the first public demonstration of the new GeForce FX, the highly anticipated new GPU slated for availability in early 2003. Moreover, two lucky players will be rewarded a PNY Verto GeForce FX graphics card, while other gamers will have several chances to win various PNY Verto GeForce4 graphic cards throughout the competition. While the three-day competition is waging, NVIDIA will also be hosting public previews of its GeForce FX GPUs, the fastest, most advanced GPU on the planet and the industry's first GPU to enable real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and special effects on desktop PCs. Source: Nvidia