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Please check out the following items to make sure that you get the complete product:
VGA card
Disks: Drivers, documentation and applications
Consult your dealer immediately if anything is missing or damaged.
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MSI Live VGA BIOS Update
This service enables you to update the latest VGA BIOS for your VGA card.
1. To update your VGA BIOS, click Live VGA BIOS item on the left column of the main page.
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2. If your VGA card does not support the Live VGA BIOS function, you will receive a warning
message on the screen.
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3. If your VGA card do support the Live VGA BIOS function, please pay attention to the message
shown on the screen telling you that in what circumstance flashing BIOS may fail to reboot.
4. Click Yes if you would like to try it at your own risk or No to return to the main page with
everything unchanged.
5. If you click Yes to continue, it will check the information and BIOS version of your VGA card,
and list them in a table.
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6. Click the graph button at the bottom to connect the MSI Live Update 3 Server.
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7. The MSI Live VGA BIOS will automatically connect the Internet and search the supported
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BIOS in the database of MSI .
8. If it has found one (or several) supported BIOS for your VGA card, click the InstallShield
Wizard button on the right side of the table to have the new BIOS downloaded and updated
automatically.
9. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.
Shader Technology
Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support:
- Full speed 32-bit floating point processing.
- High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support.
- High performance dynamic branching and flow control.
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL 2.0.
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering
2x/4x/6x
Anti-Aliasing
modes:
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and
centroid sampling.
- New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing mode.
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing.
- Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen
HDTV.
2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes:
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering.
- Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options.
- Improved rendering with higher subpixel precision and LOD computation levels.
- New rotational high quality rendering mode.
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Advanced Texture Compression
High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps.
Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format.
Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
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For reference only
Note: The VGA card shown here
may vary from the actual card.
For further information, please visit
MSI website at www.msi.com.tw
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VGA is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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Macrovision Corporation Product Notice
This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of certain U.S. patents
and other intellectual property rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and other right owners. Use of this copyright
protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited
viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is
prohibited.
Under the European Union ("EU") Directive on Waste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Directive 2002/96/EC,
which takes effect on August 13, 2005, products of
"electrical and electronic equipment" cannot be discarded
as municipal waste anymore and manufacturers of covered
electronic equipment will be obligated to take back such
products at the end of their useful life.
DO NOT touch the
cooling system since
it may produce a
certain heat while
processing tasks.
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:
Intel Pentium III
(and above), AMD K7 (and above), or compatible with PCI Express slot
128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
500MHZ minimum processor speed for MPEG-2 video capture
Operation System Support: Windows XP
Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
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RX1950PRO-T2D series
512MB DDR3 memory or
256MB DDR3 memory
Power Connector
ATI Radeon X1950PRO
PCI Express interface
Fan Connector
DVI-I port (Yellow)
CrossFire Interface
TV_Out Connector
HDTV integrated
G52-V0762X2
September 2006
Optional bracket
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